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Michele Bachmann
stated on July 14, 2013 an interview with World Net Daily

"The president … by executive order" could grant voting rights to illegal immigrants who are newly legalized under pending legislation.

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2013

Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren

The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013

Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at CPAC

"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."

By Louis Jacobson • March 20, 2013

Michele Bachmann
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at the conservative CPAC conference

Of every "three dollars in food stamps for the needy, seven dollars in salaries and pensions (go to) the bureaucrats who are supposed to be taking care of the poor."

By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2013

Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa

"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa

Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."

By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 28, 2011 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer

"Under Barack Obama's watch, we have expended $805 billion to liberate the people of Iraq and, more importantly, 4,400 American lives."

By Louis Jacobson • October 31, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando

"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."

By Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on August 26, 2011 a campaign event

President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."

By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on March 26, 2011 a speech at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference

"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."

March 29, 2011

Michele Bachmann
stated on November 16, 2010 an interview on "Good Morning America."

Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 17, 2010

Michele Bachmann
stated on September 17, 2010 a speech to the Values Voter Summit

"Speaker Pelosi ... has been busy sticking the taxpayer with her $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she's flying."

By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2010

Michele Bachmann
stated on October 30, 2009 an interview on Sean Hannity's show on the Fox News Channel.

Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."

By Catharine Richert • November 3, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 an interview with the Washington Times.

ACORN will be a paid partner with the Census Bureau and "they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public."

June 26, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on June 17, 2009 a Washington Times interview

Says the Constitution only requires her to tell the census "how many people are in our home."

June 25, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on April 27, 2009 an interview with Pajamas Media.

In the 1970s, "the swine flu broke out . . . under another Democrat, President Jimmy Carter."

By Bill Adair • April 30, 2009

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