Quotes about Tea Party

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. Votes: 8

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves. Votes: 6

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table. Votes: 6

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them. Votes: 6

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots. Votes: 6

You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used. Votes: 6

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do. Votes: 6

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party. Votes: 6

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around. Votes: 6

I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. Votes: 6

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. Votes: 6

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. Votes: 6

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around. Votes: 6

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming. Votes: 4

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets. Votes: 4

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. Votes: 4

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. Votes: 4

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins. Votes: 4

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist. Votes: 4

Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again! Votes: 4

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement. Votes: 4

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. Votes: 4

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back. Votes: 4

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it. Votes: 4

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties. Votes: 4

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage. Votes: 4

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control. Votes: 4

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? Votes: 4

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. Votes: 4

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. Votes: 4

Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s. Votes: 4

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map. Votes: 4

People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them. Votes: 4

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. Votes: 4

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. Votes: 4

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will take our country back from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, theres a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change. Votes: 4

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do. Votes: 4

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians. Votes: 3

I'm more of a Tea Party person. Votes: 3

I've never attended any Tea Party functions. Votes: 3

I am a defender of the Tea Party. Votes: 3

You know I have had Tea Party support. Votes: 3

The Tea Party claims to want small government. Votes: 3

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. Votes: 3

It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party. Votes: 3

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America. Votes: 3

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. Votes: 3

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. Votes: 3

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. Votes: 3

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. Votes: 3

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities. Votes: 3

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party. Votes: 3

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. Votes: 3

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around. Votes: 3

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party. Votes: 3

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. Votes: 3

I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers. Votes: 3

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country. Votes: 3

Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them. Votes: 3

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better. Votes: 3

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody. Votes: 3

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president. Votes: 3

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. Votes: 3

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. Votes: 3

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. Votes: 3

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. Votes: 3

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. Votes: 3

Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party. Votes: 3

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. Votes: 3

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories. Votes: 3

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. Votes: 3

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. Votes: 3

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party. Votes: 3

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate. Votes: 3

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets. Votes: 3

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. Votes: 3

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. Votes: 3

In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved. Votes: 3

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are. Votes: 3

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. Votes: 3

When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party. Votes: 3

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise. Votes: 3

After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let's get it on.' Votes: 3

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". Votes: 3

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". Votes: 3

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. Votes: 3

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time. Votes: 3

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time. Votes: 3

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force. Votes: 3

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support. Votes: 3

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see. Votes: 3

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. Votes: 3

Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. Votes: 3

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country. Votes: 3

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that. Votes: 3

I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody. Votes: 3

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests. Votes: 3

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way. Votes: 3

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government. Votes: 3

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed. Votes: 3

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for. Votes: 3

I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. Votes: 3

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff! Votes: 3

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus. Votes: 3

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't. Votes: 3

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama. Votes: 3

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program. Votes: 3

There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel. Votes: 3

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement. Votes: 3

The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities, Votes: 3

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement. Votes: 3

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. Votes: 3

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything. Votes: 3

I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party. Votes: 3

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins. Votes: 3

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. Votes: 3

The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become. Votes: 3

He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation. Votes: 3

I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks. Votes: 3

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness. Votes: 3

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected. Votes: 3

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. Votes: 3

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. Votes: 3

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies. Votes: 3

A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow. Votes: 3

The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not? Votes: 3

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry. Votes: 3

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on. Votes: 3

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there! Votes: 3

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus? Votes: 3

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are. Votes: 3

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. Votes: 3

It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress. Votes: 3

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote. Votes: 3

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants. Votes: 3

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why. Votes: 3

The presidency has even become a partisan thing. The presidency has been totally politicized and totally made partisan, as evidenced by the IRS going after the Tea Party and any number of other examples I give you. Votes: 3

I'm a bad, inconsistent person, but at least I'm not a member of the Tea Party griping incoherently about too much government, but flashing my Medicare card every other day to a doctor because I'm 400 pounds overweight. Votes: 3

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. Votes: 3

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence. Votes: 3

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it. Votes: 3

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government. Votes: 3

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction and discouragement and disgust with what was going on in Washington. Votes: 3

I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, 'you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.' Because the Tea Party's bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base. Votes: 3

I think the Tea Party monicker has kind of outlived its use. I think this is just an America movement, I mean, and you and others are really, you know, responsible for igniting this new civic engagement that's very positive. Votes: 3

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage. Votes: 3

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. Votes: 3

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base. Votes: 3

The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up with the Republican Party, the Tea Party types, the people fed up with the Republican Washington establishment, Democrats included. Votes: 3

The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the Republicans are going to be next. We're doing what needs to be done for the sake of the country. Votes: 3

Essentially, the Tea Party are the Hell's Angels, but with sun visors instead of switch blades. They push macaroni instead of meth. Mess with the Tea Party and they'll put your dog in an American flag sweater on a hot day. Votes: 3

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street. Votes: 3

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it. Votes: 3

President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America. Votes: 3

My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing. Votes: 3

Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters. Votes: 3

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned. Votes: 3

I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about. Votes: 3

I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks. Votes: 3

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government. Votes: 3

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010. Votes: 3

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment. Votes: 3

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. Votes: 3

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment. Votes: 3

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. Votes: 3

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff. Votes: 3

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress. Votes: 3

Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. Votes: 3

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television. Votes: 3

There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado. Votes: 3

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work. Votes: 3

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses. Votes: 3

I am righteous and righteously indignant, the Tea Party is righteously indignant, and our goal is to not just save the country, but quite frankly, if America goes, so goes the world, so in our desire to save the country, we are trying to save the world. Votes: 3

I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress. Votes: 3

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement. Votes: 3

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them. Votes: 3

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong. Votes: 3

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. Votes: 3

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever. Votes: 2

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together. Votes: 2

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. Votes: 2

The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning. Votes: 2

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets. Votes: 2

I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up. Votes: 2

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party. Votes: 2

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage Votes: 0

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war. Votes: 0

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop, Votes: 0

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating. Votes: 0

If people don't get as engaged as the tea party was, we're going to lose. Votes: 0

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. Votes: 0

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party, Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. Votes: 0

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning? Votes: 0

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool. Votes: 0

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively. Votes: 0

She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants." Votes: 0

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. Votes: 0

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. Votes: 0

Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s. Votes: 0

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world. Votes: 0

But I'm just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian Votes: 0

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party. Votes: 0

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling! Votes: 0

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process. Votes: 0

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root. Votes: 0

I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian. Votes: 0

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together. Votes: 0

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have. Votes: 0

What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us. Votes: 0

I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation. Votes: 0

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs. Votes: 0

Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report. Votes: 0

Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation. Votes: 0

Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible. Votes: 0

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House. Votes: 0

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform. Votes: 0

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill Votes: 0

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill. Votes: 0