Top 80 Michele Bachmann Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That’s the best preparation for politics any girl can have.”

— Michele Bachmann

2. “Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.”

— Michele Bachmann

3. “I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. I have a spine made out of titanium.”

— Michele Bachmann

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4. “All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

— Michele Bachmann

5. “It’s important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.”

— Michele Bachmann

6. “I’m not a fool and I won’t be taken for a ride. I will stand up for my self but at the same time I don’t presume the worst and I don’t see people coming at me with negativity. Until they do.”

— Michele Bachmann

7. “Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I’m no different, I’ve made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.”

— Michele Bachmann

8. “If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”

— Michele Bachmann

9. “I’m an affectionate person I’m a person who hugs, hugs people and I shake hands.”

— Michele Bachmann

10. “The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.”

— Michele Bachmann

11. “Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today.”

— Michele Bachmann

12. “I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.”

— Michele Bachmann

13. “My husband said, ‘Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.’ Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, ‘Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.’”

— Michele Bachmann

14. “Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.”

— Michele Bachmann

15. “If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won’t have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.”

— Michele Bachmann

16. “Let’s not do that. Let’s love people. Let’s care about people. Let’s repeal it now while we can.”

— Michele Bachmann

17. “Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth’s life cycle.”

— Michele Bachmann

18. “What I don’t like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don’t see themselves as a super legislature.”

— Michele Bachmann

19. “Nancy Pelosi is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she’s just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet – we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.”

— Michele Bachmann

20. “I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It’s overdue. That’s where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.”

— Michele Bachmann

21. “Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.”

— Michele Bachmann

22. “This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.”

— Michele Bachmann

23. “You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That’s your money. That’s not the government’s money.”

— Michele Bachmann

24. “The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.”

— Michele Bachmann

25. “A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that’s life. Life doesn’t turn out and it’s not perfect. My life hasn’t been perfect but it’s what I’m going to make out of it.”

— Michele Bachmann

26. “When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That’s what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.”

— Michele Bachmann

27. “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

— Michele Bachmann

28. “It isn’t that I was born thinking I had to be president. I’m getting a lot of encouragement to run from people across the country. I don’t believe this is a rash decision.”

— Michele Bachmann

29. “Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.”

— Michele Bachmann

30. “Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.”

— Michele Bachmann

31. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.”

— Michele Bachmann

32. “This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.”

— Michele Bachmann

33. “We need one strong hombre or hombre-ette, and I’m the hombre-ette to go and stand for you in Washington DC.”

— Michele Bachmann

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34. “I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.”

— Michele Bachmann

35. “Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight...”

— Michele Bachmann

36. “We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do.”

— Michele Bachmann

37. “The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won’t only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.”

— Michele Bachmann

38. “We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota, if we don’t get this amendment on the ballot for November.”

— Michele Bachmann

39. “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.”

— Michele Bachmann

40. “Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, ‘Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?’ The message is: I’m better at what I do, because I’m gay.”

— Michele Bachmann

41. “One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.”

— Michele Bachmann

42. “What I’m talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.”

— Michele Bachmann

43. “I’ve always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It’s important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it’s convenient or inconvenient, whether it’s perfect or imperfect.”

— Michele Bachmann

44. “All of the problems we’re facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It’s called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn’t work in reality.”

— Michele Bachmann

45. “My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.”

— Michele Bachmann

46. “Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?”

— Michele Bachmann

47. “They can get married. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.”

— Michele Bachmann

48. “Obamacare is a crime against democracy.”

— Michele Bachmann

49. “Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s health care bill.”

— Michele Bachmann

50. “Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”

— Michele Bachmann