I Think It's Best If There's An Amendment That Goes On The Ballot Where The People Can Weigh In. Every Time This Issue Has Gone On The Ballot, The People Have Voted To Retain The Traditional Definition Of Marriage As Recently As California In 2008.

-Michele Bachmann

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We Saw The President Of The United States Engage American Troops In A Fourth Conflict In A Foreign Land. This Is Historic.

Land

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The World Defines 'waste' Very Differently Than Jesus Does.

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Carbon Dioxide Is Natural. It Occurs In Earth. It Is A Part Of The Regular Lifecycle Of Earth. In Fact, Life On Planet Earth Can’t Even Exist Without Carbon Dioxide. So Necessary Is It To Human Life, To Animal Life, To Plant Life, To The Oceans, To The Vegetation That’s On The Earth, To The, To The Fowl That - That Flies In The Air, We Need To Have Carbon Dioxide As Part Of The Fundamental Lifecycle Of Earth.

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Air

If We Look At American History, Between 1942 And 1947, The Data That Was Collected By The Census Bureau Was Handed Over To The Fbi And Other Organizations At The Request Of President Roosevelt, And That's How The Japanese Were Rounded Up And Put Into The Internment Camps.

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Organization

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Liberty

World

Common

I Haven’t Had A Gaffe Or Something That I’ve Done That Has Caused Me To Fall In The Polls.

Fall

Done

Polls

You Should Get To Keep Every Dollar That You Earn. That's Your Money. That's Not The Government's Money.

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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.

Perfect

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Situation

I Think That It's Important That The American People Know That Barack Obama Didn't Have A Mild Association With Bill Ayers, He Had A Very Strong Association With Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers Is Not Someone That The Average American Wants To See Their President Have An Association With.

Strong

Thinking

Average

When You Are Running For The Presidency Of The United States, You Have To Expect That You Are Going To Have Attacks By All Sides.

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Sides

Obama Is For The 300 Million Souls Of The United States What Andreas Lubitz Was For The 150 Souls Of The Germanwings Flight.

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United States

Flight

I Talk To A Lot Of Women Who Have Difficult Times Who Are Suffering. I Really Want Women To Be Encouraged And To Have Hope Because Things Can Get Better. Make Good Decisions, Stop Making Bad Ones, Because We Have To Take Responsibility Too. But Make Good Decisions And Really The Future Will Be A Lot Better For Your Kids - And Yourself.

Kids

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Decision

I Think If We Give Glenn Beck The Numbers, He Can Solve This [the National Debt].

Thinking

Numbers

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The ‘great Society’ Has Not Worked And It’s Put Us Into The Modern Welfare State. If You Look At China, They Don’t Have Food Stamps. If You Look At China, They’re In A Very Different Situation. They Save For Their Own Retirement Security…they Don’t Have The Modern Welfare State And China’s Growing. And So What I Would Do Is Look At The Programs That Lbj Gave Us With The Great Society And They’d Be Gone.

Retirement

Different

Looks

We Aren't Using Guantanamo Bay Anymore To Take Additional Terrorists. That Was The Perfect Facility To Be Able To Use To Extract Information From People To Keep The American People Safe.

I Am A Fighter. I'm Not Just There To Go Along And Get Along.

Fighter

I Wish The American Media Would Take A Great Look At The Views Of The People In Congress And Find Out, Are They Pro-america Or Anti-america? I Think People Would Be - Would Love To See An Expose Like That.

Thinking

Views

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Sarah Palin Is A Compelling Political Figure.

Political

Figures

Palin

I Want My Candidacy For The Presidency Of The United States To Stand For A Moment When We The People Stand Once Again For The Independence From A Government That Has Gotten Too Big And Spends Too Much And Has Taken Away Too Much Of Our Liberties.

Taken

Government

People

The Sex Curriculum Will Be Essentially By Taught By The Local Gay Community.

Sex

Gay

Community

Marriage Was Created By The Hand Of God. No Man, Not Even A Supreme Court, Can Undo What A Holy God Has Instituted.

Gay

Men

Hands

It’s Over 800 Billion Dollars That We Have Expended [in Iraq]. I Believe That Iraq Should Pay Us Back For The Money That We Spent, And I Believe That Iraq Should Pay The Families That Lost A Loved One Several Million Dollars Per Life, I Think At Minimum.

Believe

Thinking

Iraq

Obamacare Is A Crime Against Democracy Because A Material Part Of That Bill Was Not Disclosed To The Senate Nor To The House Of Representatives. The Funding Was Hidden In The Bill. That Was Fraud And I Can't Vote For Any Budget That Fails To Bring Back That Money From Obamacare.

Obamacare

House

Democracy

It Isn't That Some Gay Will Get Some Rights. It's That Everyone Else In Our State Will Lose Rights. For Instance, Parents Will Lose The Right To Protect And Direct The Upbringing Of Their Children. Because Our K-12 Public School System, Of Which Ninety Per Cent Of All Youth Are In The Public School System, They Will Be Required To Learn That Homosexuality Is Normal, Equal And Perhaps You Should Try It. And That Will Occur Immediately, That All Schools Will Begin Teaching Homosexuality.

Children

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School

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... There Are No Special Rights For People Based Upon Your Sex Practices. There's No Special Rights Based Upon What You Do In Your Sex Life. You're An American Citizen First And Foremost And That's It.

Sex

Men

Rights

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.

Prayer

Believe

Mean

I Think People Have No Idea What's Coming Down The Pike. This Is The Crown Jewel Of Socialism. And We Only Have Next Week To Stop It....this Is Socialized Medicine And Like I Said Sean This Is The Crown Jewel Of Socialism....it's Unconstitutional.

Thinking

Next Week

Jewels

Without A Doubt, Absolutely, A Woman Will Be A President, And Probably Sooner Rather Than Later. I Am Excited About That, And If What I Did Serves As A Steppingstone For Another Woman Down The Course, I Am Very Grateful To Have Had That Chance.

Grateful

Doubt

President

A Normal Way That The American Free Market System Has Worked Is That We Have A Process Of Unwinding. It's Called Bankruptcy. It Doesn't Mean, Necessarily, That The Industry Is Eclipsed Or That It's Gone. Often Times, The Phoenix Rises Out Of The Ashes.

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Phoenix

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I Think People Recognize I'm Very Sincere In What I Say.

Thinking

People

Sincere

I Would Agree That President Carter Didn't Live Up To The Expectation We All Had When He Came In 1976. My Husband And I Were Young Idealists Who Worked On His Campaign.

Husband

Expectations

President

Both Mitt Romney And Newt Gingrich Supported The Wall Street Bailout.

Wall

Newts

Streets

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.

Wish

Scientist

Knowledgeable

Lady Liberty And Sarah Palin Are Lit By The Same Torch.

Liberty

Torches

Palin

Morals Are Built On Religious Faith. Virtue Is Built On Morality And Influences A Culture.

Religious

Culture

Morality

I Think The People That Barack Obama Has Been Associating With Are Anti-american, By And Large.

Thinking

People

Barack

I Never Questioned Barack Obama's Patriotism.

Barack

A Woman (terri Schiavo) Was Healthy. There Was Brain Damage, There Was No Question. But From A Health Point Of View, She Was Not Terminally Ill.

Views

Healthy

Brain

Michael Steele! You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!

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I Think It's Important That People Know What Raising The Debt Ceiling Is. It's Congress Giving Permission To The Federal Government To Borrow More Money That We Don't Have, And We Borrow It For The Purpose Of Spending It.

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Government

People

Under President Bachmann You Will See Gasoline Come Down Below $2 A Gallon Again.

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Gasoline

Gallons

I'd Like To Give Zero Out Capital Gains Tax And Zero Out The Dividends Tax, Zero Out Alternative Minimum Tax, And Zero Out The Death Tax.

Zero

Giving

Alternatives

It's Important For Us To Be Kind To Other People And Treat Other People The Way That We Want To Be Treated.

People

Important

Want

Let Me Tell You What The Tea Party Stands For. It Stands For The Fact That We Are Taxed Enough Already.

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Enough Already

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Where Do We Say That A Cell Became A Blade Of Grass, Which Became A Starfish, Which Became A Cat, Which Became A Donkey, Which Became A Human Being? There's A Real Lack Of Evidence From Change From Actual Species To A Different Type Of Species.

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There Is A Difference Between God As A Sense Of Comfort, And God Actually Telling You What To Do!

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No Politician Was More Maligned Than Ronald Reagan.

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Heart

Kids

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Mitt Romney Understands The Private Sector, He Understands How Profit Is Created, And He Isn't Embarrassed By It.

Profit

Embarrassed

Private Sector

I'm A Very Good Decision Maker Because I Have Core Set Of Principles And So I Can Make Decisions. Decisions Can Be Very Hard And You Have To Wrestle With Them, But I'm Able To Get All The Data On The Table And Figure Out What Would Be The Best Decision Because Decisions Mean Ill For Some People And Mean Positives For Others.

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Data

People

I'm The Only One That Can Take The Debate To Barack Obama And Win And Be Elected.

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Barack

It's Tough To Find A Place Not To Like In Switzerland.

Switzerland

Tough

Never In The History Of The United States Have We Cut Back On Troops When We've Been At War.

War

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Makeup

Men

Hair

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.

Mistake

People

Forgiving

I Was In The Minnesota State Senate From 2000 Until 2006. In 2006, I Was Urged To Run For Congress, I Did. And I've Been Here Ever Since.

Running

Minnesota

States

The Government Has No Business Telling An Individual What Kind Of Light Bulb To Buy.

Light

Government

Kind

I Don't Know How Much God Has To Do To Get The Attention Of The Politicians. We've Had An Earthquake; We've Had A Hurricane. He Said, 'are You Going To Start Listening To Me Here?' Listen To The American People Because The American People Are Roaring Right Now. They Know Government Is On A Morbid Obesity Diet And We've Got To Rein In The Spending.

Government

Earthquakes

People

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.

Years

Trying

Needs

Small-business People Do Not Want To Have More Than 50 Employees, Because That's When All The Regulatory Burden Of Obamacare Kicks In.

Obamacare

People

Want

I Pledge To You I'm Not A Talker. I'm A Doer.

Doers

Talkers

Pledge

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.

Real

Bisexual

Compassion

People Think When You Have A, Quote, 'bank Failure,' That That Is The End Of The Bank. And It Isn't Necessarily.

Thinking

People

Ends

I Think You May See Again A Rise At The Federal Government Level For A - A Call For The Federal Constitutional Amendment, Because People Want To Make Sure That This Definition Of Marriage Remains Secure, Because After All, The Family Is The Fundamental Unit Of Government.

Thinking

Government

People

After The $700 Billion Bailout, The Trillion-dollar Stimulus, And The Massive Budget Bill With Over 9,000 Earmarks, Many Of You Implored Washington To Please Stop Spending Money That We Don't Have. But Instead Of Cutting, We Saw An Unprecedented Explosion Of Government Spending And Debt. It Was Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before In The History Of The Country.

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Cutting

Government

Look Into The Heart Of Each Child. That Child Might Be Suffering And Eventually They'll Be An Adult, But Help Them Get To That Next Plane Because They Have Something To Offer.

Children

Heart

Suffering

Any Of You Who Have Members Of Your Family In The Lifestyle, We Have A Member Of Our Family That Is [lesbian]. This Is Not Funny. It's A Very Sad Life. It's Part Of Satan, I Think, To Say That This Is Gay.

Gay

Thinking

Sad Life

I Find It Interesting That It Was Back In The 1970s That The Swine Flu Broke Out Under Another, Then Under Another Democrat President, Jimmy Carter. I'm Not Blaming This On President Obama, I Just Think It's An Interesting Coincidence.

Stupid

Silly

Thinking

One Thing That Happens Often Times In Family Life Is That People Think Maybe The Challenge You Are Having With A Child When They Are A Teenager Or Even In Adolescence That This Is Going To Go On Forever And It Doesn't. They Get To Their 20s, They Change Dramatically In Their 20s. So Sometimes It's Just Holding On For The Ride, And Just Being There And Holding On For The Ride.

Children

Teenager

Thinking

We're Running Out Of Rich People In This Country.

Running

Country

People

The President Of The United States Will Be Taking A Trip Over To India That Is Expected To Cost The Taxpayers $200 Million A Day.

President

India

United States

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.

Running

Country

Encouragement

I Get How Devastating High Taxes Are To Job Creation.

Jobs

Creation

Taxes

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.

Boards

Minnesota

Natural

My Husband Is Not Running For The Presidency, Neither Are My Children, Neither Is Our Business, Neither Are Our Foster Children.

Running

Children

Husband

Carbon Dioxide Is Natural, It Is Not Harmful, It Is A Part Of Earth's Lifecycle. And Yet We're Being Told That We Have To Reduce This Natural Substance, Reduce The American Standard Of Living, To Create An Arbitrary Reduction In Something That Is Naturally Occurring In Earth.

Environmental

Arbitrary

Substance

Before We Get Started, Let's All Say 'happy Birthday' To Elvis Presley Today.

Crazy

Today

I Do Support A Constitutional Amendment On Marriage Between A Man And A Woman, But I Would Not Be Going Into The States To Overturn Their State Law.

Men

Law

Support

Carbon Dioxide Is Natural. It Is Not Harmful. It Is Part Of Earth's Life Cycle...

Earth

Natural

Carbon

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.

Religious

People

Belief

The Good News Is, The Cake Is Baked. Barack Obama Will Not Be Reelected President.

Cake

Political

President

We Need One Strong Hombre Or Hombre-ette, And I'm The Hombre-ette To Go And Stand For You In Washington Dc.

Strong

Needs

Washington Dc

The Tea Party Is An Organic, Spontaneous Movement That Rose Up In Opposition To To The Pelosi-reid-obama Agenda.

Party

Rose

Tea

Hey, I Took Karate When I Was 17 Years Old, I Am Dangerous.

Years

Hey

Karate

And What A Bizarre Time We're In, Jan, When A Judge Will Say To Little Children That You Can't Say The Pledge Of Allegiance, But You Must Learn That Homosexuality Is Normal And You Should Try It.

Children

Judging

Trying

And I Took A Walk And I Just Went To Prayer And I Said Lord, What Would You Have Me Do In The Minnesota State Senate? And Just Through Prayer I Knew That I Was To Introduce The Marriage Amendment In Minnesota.

Prayer

Minnesota

Introducing

My Favorite Thing Is Landscaping. I Love Landscaping. And So What I'll Do Is, Mostly I Put Language Into Search Engines, And If I Want To Look, Like, At Tulip Gardens, Or, Like, Georgian Gardens, I Love English Gardens, How They're Laid Out. Japanese Gardens, Asian Gardens. So, I'm Kind Of A Frustrated Landscaper.

Love

Garden

Frustrated

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.

Light

Government

President

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.

Country

Father

President

I'm An Affectionate Person I'm A Person Who Hugs, Hugs People And I Shake Hands.

Hands

People

Hug

Literally, If We Took Away The Minimum Wage - If Conceivably It Was Gone - We Could Potentially Virtually Wipe Out Unemployment Completely Because We Would Be Able To Offer Jobs At Whatever Level.

Jobs

Unemployment

Gone

The Constitution Is Government's Stop Sign. It Says, You - The Three Branches Of Government - Can Go So Far And No Farther.

Government

Three

Branches

They (voters) Want To Know What's The Truth. They're Not Interested In A Chameleon.

Want

Voters

Republican

I Feel Like I'm A Professional. I've Been A Professional For A Number Of Years. I'm A Businesswoman And A Tax Lawyer And A Professional And So That's How I Treat Other People.

Years

Numbers

People

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.

Taken

Self

People

If You Are A Conservative You Can Never Get Anything Wrong. I Was Very Proud Of The Fact That I Didn't Get Anything Wrong That I Said During The Course Of The Debates.

Proud

Facts

Conservative

I'm Not Involved In Light, Frivolous Matters. I'm Not Involved In Fringe Or Side Issues. I'm Involved In Serious Issues.

Light

Issues

Matter

The Minnesota Republican Hierarchy Didn't Want Me To Run Against Their Incumbent In 2000; They Didn't Know Who I Was. And Once Many Party Bigwigs Did Get To Know Me, They Weren't Sure That I Could Win The Seat.

Running

Party

Winning

I Was The Perfect Candidate. America Had Their Chance With The Perfect Candidate.

America

Perfect

Chance

My Heart Really Softens When I Think About Mothering Because The Greatest Lessons That I've Learned In Life Have Been As A Mother.

Mother

Heart

Thinking

Christians Must Engage In "spiritual Warfare" To Combat Same-sex Marriage.

Christian

Spiritual

Sex

Everything I Needed To Know I Learned In Iowa... I Know What It Means To Be From Iowa - What We Value And What's Important... I Grew Up Here In Iowa.

Iowa

Needs

Grew Up

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.

Party

Perfect

Pro Life

Gay Marriage Is Probably The Biggest Issue That Will Impact Our State And Our Nation In The Last, At Least, Thirty Years. I Am Not Understating That.

Gay

Impact

Years

We Need To Have Profound Compassion For The People Who Are Dealing With The Very Real Issue Of Sexual Dysfunction In Their Life, And Sexual Identity Disorders. This Is A Very Real Issue. It's Not Funny, It's Sad. Any Of You Who Have Members Of Your Family That Are In The Lifestyle-we Have A Member Of Our Family That Is. This Is Not Funny. It's A Very Sad Life. It's Part Of Satan, I Think, To Say This Is Gay. It's Anything But Gay.

Real

Gay

Thinking

I Was Opposed To The U.s. Involvement In Libya From The Very Start. President Obama Has Never Made A Compelling National Security Case On Libya.

President

Libya

Made

Was The Leaker In Question, Ed Snowden, Was He A Traitor?

Nsa

Traitor

Snowden

Small Business Is The Backbone Of Our Economy. I'm For Big Business, Too. But Small Business Is Where The Jobs Are Generated.

Jobs

Small Business

Economy

I Have A Very Strong, Very Proven Record That I Am Not A Compromiser. [...] I Have A Spine Made Out Of Titanium.

Strong

Records

Made

If You're Involved In The Gay And Lesbian Lifestyle, It's Bondage. It Is Personal Bondage, Personal Despair And Personal Enslavement.

Gay

Despair

Lifestyle

I Come From A Modest Background. I Put Myself Through College And Law School And A Postdoctorate Program In Tax Law.

School

College

Law

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.

Different

Levels

Gifted

The Holy Spirit Is Our Comforter, Our Teacher. That's Why, In Prayer, We Can Ask The Lord To Open Up Scripture And Make It Come Alive To Us, To Open Our Understanding. He Left His Spirit With Us Until We Join Him In Heaven.

Teacher

Prayer

Heaven

I Grew Up With Three Brothers And No Sisters. That's The Best Preparation For Politics Any Girl Can Have.

Girl

Brother

Preparation

I’m Not Only A Lawyer, I Have A Post-doctorate Degree In Federal Tax Law From William And Mary. I’ve Worked In Serious Scholarship ... My Husband And I Have Raised Five Kids, We’ve Raised 23 Foster Children. We’ve Applied Ourselves To Education Reform. We Started A Charter School For At-risk Kids.

Children

Husband

Kids

I Am Proud Of My Husband, Marcus, The Love Of My Life, And His Swiss Heritage. Even Though I Have Been A Dual Citizen Since I Was Married In 1978, I Have Never Exercised Any Rights Of That Citizenship.

Husband

Rights

Love Of My Life

Looking Backwards, I Look At My Resume And I Look At The Things I've Accomplished, But Quite Honestly There's Just That Word, 'mother', I Just Saw It On The Paper, And I That's The One That Means The Most To Me.

Mother

Mean

Looks

We Must Never Forget What Government Is Not. Government Is Not A Philanthropic Organization. Government Is Not The Family. And Government Certainly Is Not The Church.

Government

Organization

Church

If We Want To Kill Obamacare And We Want To End Socialized Medicine, It Must Be Done In The Next Election!

Obamacare

Medicine

Done

If There Was One Word On A Motivation Or World View, That One Word Would Be 'liberty.' That's What Inspires Me And Motivates Me More Than Anything - Just The Concept Of Freedom, Liberty, What It Means.

Motivation

Mean

Views

I Think That The American People Are Curious About Who A Candidate Is, What Their Background Is, Who Their Family Is, What Their Faith Experience Has Been, Their Education, Their Work Experience. All Of Those Are Factors That Voters Look At Because They Want To Take A Measure Of The Individual.

Thinking

People

Looks

I Think What Separates Me From The Candidates Is The Fact That I Have A Proven Track Record Of Being A Fighter. A Fighting For What People Believe In, Whether It Is Popular Or Not. Despite The Opposition, I Stand True. Because People Know That I Will Do What I Say. And That I Say What I Do.

Believe

Fighting

Thinking

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.

Children

People

Diversity

You Have A Teacher Talking About His Gayness. (the Elementary School Student) Goes Home Then And Says "mom! What's Gayness? We Had A Teacher Talking About This Today." The Mother Says "well, That's When A Man Likes Other Men, And They Don't Like Girls." The Boy's Eight. He's Thinking, "hmm. I Don't Like Girls. I Like Boys. Maybe I'm Gay." And You Think, "oh, That's, That's Way Out There. The Kid Isn't Gonna Think That." Are You Kidding? That Happens All The Time. You Don't Think That This Is Intentional, The Message That's Being Given To These Kids? That's Child Abuse.

Girl

Mom

Mother

Government Has Really Been Growing, A Lot Of Largesse, But The People In The Real World Aren't. And That's What Has To Change. Government Has No Conformity At All With The Real World.

Real

Government

People

Mitt Romney And Newt Gingrich Represent The Big Government Frugal Socialist Wing Of The Party. And I Represent The True Constitutional Conservative Wing Of Our Party.

Party

Conservative

Big Government

I Believe That There Is A Very Strong Chance That We Will See That Young People Will Be Put Into Mandatory Service. And The Real Concerns Is That There Are Provisions For What I Would Call Re-education Camps For Young People, Where Young People Have To Go And Get Trained In A Philosophy That The Government Puts Forward And Then They Have To Go To Work In Some Of These Politically Correct Forums.

Strong

Philosophy

Real

Our Children Will Be Forced To Learn That Homosexuality Is Normal And Natural And That Perhaps They Should Try It, And That'll Be Very Soon In Our Public Schools All Across The State, Beginning In Kindergarten.

Children

School

Trying

The Big Thing We Are Working On Now Is The Global Warming Hoax. It’s All Voodoo, Nonsense, Hokum, A Hoax.

Hoaxes

Global Warming

Nonsense

You Can't Take Money From The Taxpayers Out Of The Treasury To Give It To Pay Off Your Political Donors. That's Corruption To Do That.

Giving

Political

Pay

I Don't Want The United States To Be In A Global Economy Where Our Economic Future Is Bound To That Of Zimbabwe. We Can't Necessarily Trust The Decisions That Are Being Made Financially In Other Countries.

Country

Zimbabwe

Decision

What People Recognize Is That There's A Fear That The United States Is In An Unstoppable Decline. They See The Rise Of China, The Rise Of India, The Rise Of The Soviet Union And Our Loss Militarily Going Forward.

Loss

People

United States

John Quincy Adams Most Certainly Was A Part Of The Revolutionary War Era. He Was A Young Boy, But He Was Actively Involved.

War

Boys

Eras

During My First Term In Congress, I Signed A Pledge That I Will Take No More Earmarks And I've Been Faithful To That Pledge.

Faithful

Firsts

Congress

In 5,000 Years Of Recorded Human History... Neither In The East Or In The West... Has Any Society Ever Defined Marriage As Anything Other Than Between Men And Women. Not One In 5000 Years Of Recorded Human History. That's An Astounding Fact And It Isn't Until The Last 12 Years Or So That We Have Seen For The First Time In Recorded Human History Marriage Defined As Anything Other Than Between Men And Between Women.

Men

Years

East

What I Want To Do Is To Make Sure That We Fully Repeal Obamacare. This Will Be One Of The Largest Spending Initiatives We Will Ever See In Our Country. And Also, It Will Take Away Choice From The American People.

Country

Obamacare

People

This [health Care Reform] Cannot Pass. What We Have To Do Today Is Make A Covenant, To Slit Our Wrists, Be Blood Brothers On This Thing. This Will Not Pass.

Brother

Blood

Today

We're In A State Of Crisis Where Our Nation Is Literally Ripping Apart At The Seams Right Now, And Lawlessness Is Occurring From One Ocean To The Other. And We're Seeing The Fulfillment Of The Book Of Judges Here In Our Own Time, Where Every Man Doing That Which Is Right In His Own Eyes-in Other Words, Anarchy.

Ocean

Book

Eye

I Have A Very High Opinion Of Steve King And His Ability, So I Would Encourage Him To Consider Any Position For Higher Office.

Kings

Office

Opinion

This Is President Obama’s Number One Political Agenda Item Because He Knows We Will Never Again Have A Republican President, Ever, If Amnesty Goes Into Effect.

Numbers

Political

President

I Don't Know How Much God Has To Do To Get The Attention Of The Politicians.

Attention

Politician

Know How

I'm Not Motivated By Vanity, Glory Or The Quest For Power.

Vanity

Quests

Glory

Many Children In The Foster Care System Are Often In The Midst Of A Family Challenge.

Children

Challenges

Care

I Want To Be America's Margaret Thatcher. I Will Be The Next Iron Lady.

Iron

America

Want

We Need A Strong, Bold Constitutional Conservative Who Won't Back Down And Who Will Fight For The Values We Believe In. That's What We Need For Our Nominee, Whether It Is Me Or Whether It Is Someone Else.

Strong

Believe

Fighting

I Always Worked Very Hard Against The Unconstitutional Individual Mandate In Health Care. I Didn't Praise It.

Care

Praise

Individual

This Country Could Use A President Like Benjamin Franklin Again.

Country

President

Use

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.

Stupid

Silly

Environmental

The Very Founders That Wrote Those Documents Worked Tirelessly Until Slavery Was No More.

Slavery

Republican

Founders

People Confuse Compassion With Government Being Compassionate With Other People's Money Versus People Being Compassionate With Their Own Money.

Compassion

Government

People

There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Scientists, Many Of Them Holding Nobel Prizes, Who Believe In Intelligent Design.

Believe

Intelligent

Design

I Was Born Into A Christian Family And Brought Up In A Lutheran Church. My Faith Has Been The Center Point Of My Life, Really, Since I Was A Child, But At 16 Years Of Age, I Fully Surrendered My Life Over To Christ. At That Point, As A Teenager, I Began To Grasp The Concept Of Christ's True Love And Forgiveness.

Christian

Children

Teenager

Though I'm A Congresswoman By Title, A Politician I've Never Been.

Titles

Politician

We're Seeing The Fulfillment Of The Book Of Judges Here In Our Own Time - Every Man Doing That Which Is Right In His Own Eyes.

Book

Eye

Men

I Am Convinced In My Heart And In My Mind That If The United States Fails To Stand With Israel, That Is The End Of The United States. We Have To Show That We Are Inextricably Entwined, That As A Nation We Have Been Blessed Because Of Our Relationship With Israel, And If We Reject Israel, Then There Is A Curse That Comes Into Play.

Blessed

Heart

Israel

You Will Never See President Bachmann Step One Toe Out Of The United States And Apologize For This Country.

Country

President

United States

We Have To Have A Candidate Who Is Going To Stand For Our Issues And Our Values And Be A True, Proven Constitutional Conservative.

Conservative

Values

that's Part Of The Problem, The Overkill. And When They Make It Complicated, They Make It Expensive And So Then You Can No Longer Stay In Business.

Conservative

Problem

Complicated

The Law Limits Anyone From Serving As President Of The United States For More Than Eight Years. And In My Opinion, Eight Years Is Also Long Enough For An Individual To Serve As A Representative For A Specific Congressional District.

Eight

Years

Law

I Want People In Minnesota Armed And Dangerous On This Issue Of The Energy Tax Because We Need To Fight Back. Thomas Jefferson Told Us 'having A Revolution Every Now And Then Is A Good Thing,' And The People — We The People — Are Going To Have To Fight Back Hard If We're Not Going To Lose Our Country. And I Think This Has The Potential Of Changing The Dynamic Of Freedom Forever In The United States.

Country

Fighting

Thinking

This Is An Effort To Have Government Coerce, Force Speech And Behavior. And It's Being Pushed And Advocated By The Gay Community. This Is Their Ultimate Goal. It's To Not Allow For Diversity Of Opinion On This Issue, Because They Don't Want To Be Celebrated, They Want To Force Everyone To Not Only Agree With Them But Also Have To Finance Their Agenda.

Gay

Pride

Issues

I Want To State Unequivocally For The World, As Well As For The Markets, As Well As For The American People: I Have No Doubt That We Will Not Lose The Full Faith And Credit Of The United States.

People

Doubt

United States

The Republican Party Is Extremely Pro-women.

Party

Republican

Republican Party

I Thought If Anyone Need A Leg Up, It Was Our Foster Children. So, I Started Getting Involved In Education Reform, And That Was Back In 1998. And As A Result Of All The Reform Work That I Had Done, People Urged Me To Run For The Minnesota State Senate. I Did, I Was There For Six Years.

Running

Children

Years

Let's Not Do That. Let's Love People. Let's Care About People. Let's Repeal It Now While We Can.

People

Care

In Some Ways, To Believe In Evolution Is Almost Like A Following; A Cult Following - If You Don't Believe In Evolution, You're Considered Completely Backward. That Seems To Me Very Indicative Of Bias As Well.

Believe

Way

Evolution

I Made A Decision When I Ran For President That I Wouldn't Whine About My Coverage In The Media, And I Never Did.

Media

Decision

President

I Don’t Have Anything Against Jimmy Fallon, I Love Him, He’s A Kick...

I Love Him

Kicks

Jimmy

And I Would Begin With The Epa, Because There Is No Other Agency Like The Epa. It Should Really Be Renamed The 'job-killing Organization Of America.'

Jobs

Agency

Organization

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.

Believe

People

Giving

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.

Jobs

Children

Impact

Deprivation Sometimes Can Be One Of The Most Marvelous Teachers.

Teacher

Sometimes

Deprivation

My Husband And I Had Five Biological Children But We Also Have Been Raising 23 Foster Children.

Children

Husband

Five

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.

Mother

Daughter

Stupid

Fortunately For Me, I Did Not Take Any Science Classes In College.

College

Class

Science Class

When Migraines Briefly Became A Campaign Issue For Me, It Appeared That Political Foes Were Maybe Playing The Gender Card.

Issues

Political

Campaigns

Many Children In The Foster Care System Are Often In The Midst Of A Family Challenge. Marcus, My Husband And I Sought To Assist Families During Difficult Times. We Aren't Perfect People, Nor Are We A Perfect Family, But These Children Didn't Expect Us To Be Either. They Needed A Loving Home And Care, And We Tried Our Best Every Single Day.

Children

Husband

Home

My View Of Foreign Policy Is That We Need To Be Careful And Circumspect About United States Intervention In Any Foreign Nation.

Views

United States

Needs

While I Am Reluctant To Cite Sexism As A Political Issue, Sexism Certainly Can Exist.

Issues

Political

Citing

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.

Reality

Debt

World

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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