{"author":"Michele Bachmann","author_id":"Michele+Bachmann","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["business","light","kind "],"id":2845,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["culture","morality","virtue "],"id":14704,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["prayer","understanding","why "],"id":36246,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["life","mistakes","people "],"id":38633,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["small","economy","backbone "],"id":63346,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["time","best","people "],"id":115145,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["future","decisions","want "],"id":142560,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["end","people","think "],"id":179747,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["mother","parents","young "],"id":197136,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michele Bachmann","tags":["marriage","government","people "],"id":208936,"author_id":"Michele+Bachmann"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}