Michele Bachmann Quotes

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.

There ain't nobody going to run me out of nowhere.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

Freedom isn't for wimps.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

I am what I am. A fighter.

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.

I'm gonna fall back, do my thing, but goddamn, I'm going to be a tough dude to deal with.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

I'm a fighter - I learned this as a child.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

I'd like to think that in any circumstance I'd say, "You know what? Screw this. Kill me. I'm done. I'm not going to grovel."

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

I've always believed in survival.

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.

My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.