Michele Bachmann Quotes

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

Our first priority is our kids.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

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.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

If plants, and livestock as well, require space and air, sunlight and love, children need them even more. The only real wealth of our country lies in the men and women of the next generation.