Michele Bachmann

it great to be in iowa and even better to be in waterloo where i wa born __PUNCT__

it fit to be here at the snowden hous __PUNCT__ the place that onc serv as the home of the waterloo women club __PUNCT__

i stand here todai in front of mani friend and famili to formal announc my candidaci for presid of the unit_state __PUNCT__

i do so becaus i am grate for the bless god and thi countri have given to me __PUNCT__ and not becaus of the posit of the offic __PUNCT__ but becaus i am determin that everi american deserv these bless and that togeth we can onc again strengthen america and restor the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

i want to bring a voic __PUNCT__ your voic __PUNCT__ to the white_hous __PUNCT__ just as i have brought your voic to the hall of congress to secur the promis of the futur for our gener and gener to come __PUNCT__

i often sai that everyth i need to know i learn in iowa __PUNCT__

it wa at hawthorn and vallei park elementari_school and my home __PUNCT__ both a short_distanc from here __PUNCT__ where those iowan root were firmli plant __PUNCT__

it those root and my faith in god that guid me todai __PUNCT__

i a descend of gener iowan __PUNCT__

i know what it mean to be from iowa __PUNCT__ what we valu and what import __PUNCT__

those ar the valu that help make iowa the breadbasket of the world and those ar the valu __PUNCT__ the best of all of us that we must recaptur to secur the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

waterloo wa differ five decad_ago when i grew up here __PUNCT__

that elementari_school build wa a lot younger and for that matter so wa i __PUNCT__

five decad_ago when i went there to school the hall were teem with young_children who __PUNCT__ like me __PUNCT__ had dream of their futur __PUNCT__

a futur with promis and parent who want it to be fill with more opportun than thei had __PUNCT__

five decad_ago america had less debt __PUNCT__ in fact our nation_debt wa less than __NUM___billion billion_dollar __PUNCT__

a gallon of gasolin wa __NUM___cent __PUNCT__ and own a home wa part of live the american_dream __PUNCT__

todai our debt is over __NUM___trillion trillion_dollar __PUNCT__ a gallon of ga is still outrag high __PUNCT__ million of home ar in foreclosur __PUNCT__ and those dream ar distant for mani american __PUNCT__

time have chang here in waterloo __PUNCT__ but the peopl still have the same_spirit we iowan have come to exemplifi __PUNCT__

we work_hard __PUNCT__ we live within our mean and we expect to pass on a better life to our children __PUNCT__

but our govern keep get bigger make it tougher for us to pass on that life __PUNCT__ caus our job to go oversea and spend more of the monei we make __PUNCT__ while we keep less of it __PUNCT__

don't mistak my happi memori of grow up in waterloo as pine for the past __PUNCT__

i recogn it imposs to turn the clock back and go back to a differ dai __PUNCT__

instead __PUNCT__ i want thi moment to serv as a remind about the best of who we ar as a nation __PUNCT__ what our valu ar __PUNCT__ and what went in to make_america america_great to captur it best for the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

i want my candidaci for the presid to stand for the moment when __PUNCT__ we the peopl __PUNCT__ reclaim our independ from a govern that ha gotten too big __PUNCT__ spend too much and ha taken awai too much of our liberti __PUNCT__

american have alwai confront challeng __PUNCT__

our is a histori mark by struggl as well as prosper __PUNCT__

my earli_dai were difficult as thei were for mani american __PUNCT__ especi dure the time when my mother struggl to rais us after divorc __PUNCT__

but we made our own wai __PUNCT__

we depend on our neighbor and ourselv and not our govern for help __PUNCT__

we trust in god and our neighbor and not in govern __PUNCT__

american still have that same_spirit __PUNCT__

but govern keep try to eras it becaus govern think it know better __PUNCT__ that govern can creat_job __PUNCT__ and make a better life for all of us __PUNCT__ even make us healthier __PUNCT__ but that not the case __PUNCT__

we have to recaptur our founder __PUNCT__ vision of a constitution conserv_govern if we ar to secur the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

i also here becaus waterloo laid the foundat for my own root in polit __PUNCT__

i never thought that i would end up in public_life __PUNCT__

i grew up here in iowa __PUNCT__

my grandpar ar buri here __PUNCT__

i rememb how sad i wa leav iowa to go to minnesota in the sixth grade __PUNCT__ becaus thi part of iowa wa all i knew __PUNCT__ i rememb tell my parent that we couldn't move to minnesota becaus i hadn't even been to de_moin to see the state_capitol __PUNCT__

i grew up a democrat __PUNCT__

my first involv in polit wa work for jimmi_carter elect in __NUM__ __PUNCT__

but when i saw the direct presid carter took our countri __PUNCT__ how hi big spend liber major grew govern __PUNCT__ weaken our stand in the world __PUNCT__ and how thei decreas our liberti __PUNCT__ i becam a republican __PUNCT__

i rememb stand in the kitchen of my grandma hous on lafayett street in waterloo listen to my dad __PUNCT__ a democrat debat the merit of the great_societi with my grandmoth __PUNCT__ a republican __PUNCT__

i rememb her prophet admonit to my father that the great societi wouldn't work becaus it wouldn't be my father gener who paid for it __PUNCT__ but rather my brother __PUNCT__ david and me __PUNCT__

and now that predict ha come true and neither my democrat father nor my republican grandmoth would have condon thi spend and debt __PUNCT__

i hadn't plan on get into polit __PUNCT__

i love the law and went to law_school __PUNCT__

i went on to william and mari to becom a tax lawyer __PUNCT__

togeth with my husband we start a success small_busi __PUNCT__

when i saw the problem with our local_school school_district and how academ excel wa be erod by feder_govern govern_interfer with the local_school __PUNCT__ i decid to do more than just complain about it __PUNCT__

on of those iowa valu instil in me wa to alwai leav whatev you were involv with better than when you found it __PUNCT__ so i decid to seek public_offic to make our local_school school_district better __PUNCT__

i didn't seek public_offic for fortun or power __PUNCT__ but simpli to make_life better in our commun and educ better for our children __PUNCT__

and now i seek the presid not for vaniti __PUNCT__ but becaus america is at a crucial moment and i believ that we must make a bold choic if we ar to secur the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

we cannot continu to kick the can of our problem down the road __PUNCT__ becaus thei ar problem of todai and not tomorrow __PUNCT__

we cannot continu to rack up debt on the back of futur_gener __PUNCT__

we can't afford an unconstitut health_plan that cost too much and is worth so littl __PUNCT__

and we can't afford four more year of fail leadership at home and abroad __PUNCT__

we can't afford four more year of million of american out of work or in job that pai too littl to support their famili __PUNCT__

we can't afford four more year of a hous_crisi that is devalu our home and make home_ownership imposs for mani american __PUNCT__

we can't afford four more year of a foreign_polici that lead from behind and doesn't stand up for our friend and stand up to our enemi __PUNCT__

we can't afford four more year of barack_obama __PUNCT__

as a constitut_conserv __PUNCT__ i believ in the found_father vision of a limit_govern that trust in and preserv the unlimit potenti of the american_peopl __PUNCT__

i don't believ that the solut to our problem come from washington __PUNCT__ more than ever __PUNCT__ washington is the problem __PUNCT__ and the real_solut will come from our busi __PUNCT__ our commun __PUNCT__ our school and the most basic and power unit of all __PUNCT__ our famili __PUNCT__

we start anoth campaign season __PUNCT__ almost when it seem like the last on just end __PUNCT__

through all of the rancor of the campaign __PUNCT__ let us alwai rememb that there is much more that unit us than divid us __PUNCT__

our problem don't have an ident of parti __PUNCT__ thei ar problem creat by both parti __PUNCT__

american agre that our countri is in peril todai and we must act with urgenc to save it __PUNCT__

and american aren't interest in affili __PUNCT__ thei ar interest in solut __PUNCT__ and leadership that will tell the truth __PUNCT__

and the truth is that american ar the solut and not the govern __PUNCT__ thi elect is about big_issu __PUNCT__ not petti on __PUNCT__

when all is said and done __PUNCT__ we cannot be about big_govern as usual __PUNCT__

then america will lose __PUNCT__

in washington i am bring a voic to the hall of congress that ha been miss for a long_time __PUNCT__

it is the voic of the peopl i love and learn from grow up in waterloo __PUNCT__

it is the voic of reason __PUNCT__ fair __PUNCT__ mind_peopl who love thi countri __PUNCT__ who ar patriot __PUNCT__ and who see the unit_state as the indispens nation of the world __PUNCT__

my voic is part of a movement to take back our countri __PUNCT__ and now i want to take that voic to the white_hous __PUNCT__

it is the voic of constitut_conserv who want our govern to do it job and not our and who want our govern to live within it mean and not our children and grandchildren __PUNCT__

i am here in waterloo __PUNCT__ iowa to announc todai __PUNCT__ we can win in __NUM__ and we will __PUNCT__

our voic ha been grow louder and stronger __PUNCT__

and it is made up of american from all walk of life like a three __PUNCT__ leg stool __PUNCT__

it the peac through strength republican __PUNCT__ and i on of them __PUNCT__ it fiscal_conserv __PUNCT__ and i on of them __PUNCT__ and it social_conserv __PUNCT__ and i on of them __PUNCT__

it the tea_parti_movement and i on of them __PUNCT__

the liber __PUNCT__ and to be clear i not on of them __PUNCT__ want you to think the tea parti is the right wing of the republican_parti __PUNCT__

but it not __PUNCT__

it made up of disaffect democrat __PUNCT__ independ __PUNCT__ peopl who never been polit a dai in their life __PUNCT__ libertarian __PUNCT__ republican __PUNCT__

we peopl who simpli want america back on the right track again __PUNCT__

we practic peopl who want the countri to work again __PUNCT__

thi is a power coalit the left fear __PUNCT__ and thei should becaus __PUNCT__ make no mistak about it __PUNCT__ presid_obama is a on __PUNCT__ term presid __PUNCT__ in __DATE___presid presid_obama wa veri confid that hi econom_polici would turn the countri around within a year __PUNCT__

he said __PUNCT__ a year from now __PUNCT__ i think peopl ar go to see that we start to make some progress __PUNCT__

if i don't have thi done in three year __PUNCT__ then there go to be a on __PUNCT__ term proposit __PUNCT__

well mr __PUNCT__ presid __PUNCT__ your polici haven't work __PUNCT__

spend our wai out of thi recess hasn't work __PUNCT__

and so mr __PUNCT__ presid we take you at your word __PUNCT__ waterloo hold a special place for me __PUNCT__ but also hold a special place for our countri __PUNCT__

you sent and still do send your son and daughter off to fight for america and to protect the freedom that allow us to gather here todai __PUNCT__

i honor my dad who serv in the unit_state air_forc __PUNCT__

i honor my step dad who serv in the unit_state armi __PUNCT__

and i honor my stepbroth who retir full unit state navi __PUNCT__

we will never forget those sacrific __PUNCT__ it is part of our past we must rememb to secur the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

it is those valu that make our countri uniqu and make us the most power_forc for good on thi planet __PUNCT__

i believ the unit_state of america is the indispens nation __PUNCT__

it is that spirit that separ us from those who would give their own life for other from those who sacrific other __PUNCT__ like terrorist who us littl children as human shield __PUNCT__

perhap the valor of our american fight hero wa never captur better than in the sacrific made by the sullivan brother from right here in waterloo __PUNCT__

the sullivan famili wa much like other famili in america dure the depress __PUNCT__

thei were fortun to get by __PUNCT__

most of the famili work here in waterloo at the local meat pack plant __PUNCT__

when a close_friend of the famili di at pearl_harbor __PUNCT__ the five sullivan brother enlist in the navi __PUNCT__ but under the condit that thei be allow to serv togeth __PUNCT__

on of the brother wrote __PUNCT__ we will make a team togeth that can't be beat __PUNCT__

born and rais here in waterloo __PUNCT__ the five sullivan brother had alwai stuck togeth __PUNCT__

howev __PUNCT__ on fate morn after a long night of intens battl __PUNCT__ a japanes torpedo struck the uss juneau __PUNCT__ the ship on which thei serv kill most of the crew and launch the rest into the water __PUNCT__

the oldest of the sullivan __PUNCT__ georg __PUNCT__ search tirelessli for hi brother __PUNCT__ but thei were not to be found __PUNCT__

he had surviv the attack __PUNCT__ but later perish at sea __PUNCT__

all but __NUM__ of the __NUM__ brave men of the juneau __PUNCT__ gave their live for their countri __PUNCT__

in spite of the intens pain of lose their five son all at onc __PUNCT__ the parent of the sullivan becam an inspir to america speak to million on behalf of the war_effort __PUNCT__

to honor the sullivan two ship were name for them __PUNCT__

the motto of the last ship __PUNCT__ we stick togeth __PUNCT__ their wa a demonstr of the holi scriptur that sai __PUNCT__ greater love hath no man than thi __PUNCT__ but that he lai down hi life for hi friend __PUNCT__

that is the kind of love we american have for our countri __PUNCT__

we american stick togeth __PUNCT__

we triumph togeth __PUNCT__

in the word of daniel webster __PUNCT__ we ar __PUNCT__ on caus __PUNCT__ on countri __PUNCT__ on heart __PUNCT__

that is the kind of commit it will take to face the great_challeng of todai __PUNCT__

the peopl of thi great_countri have that level of courag and thei ar long for a presid who will listen to them __PUNCT__ who will lead from the front __PUNCT__ and not from behind __PUNCT__

i michel_bachmann and i run for presid of the unit_state __PUNCT__

togeth __PUNCT__ we can do thi __PUNCT__

togeth we can reign in all the corrupt and wast that ha becom washington and instead leav a better america for futur_gener __PUNCT__

togeth we can make a team that can't be beat __PUNCT__ togeth we can secur the promis of the futur __PUNCT__

togeth we can __PUNCT__ and togeth we will __PUNCT__ god_bless you and god bless the unit_state of america __PUNCT__