Tea party Quotes · Page 6

The Tea Party loves Reagan because he said exactly what they want to hear.

— H. W. Brands

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

— Mike Lee

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

— Mike Gallagher

The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

— Bart Stupak

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

— Eric Bolling

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

— Nancy Pearcey

“The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.”

— David Lincoln

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

— Sharron Angle

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not…

— Jimmy Carter

The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that's exactly how President [Barack] Obama…

— Chuck Todd

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a…

— Gary Hamel

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it's little girls…

— Rasheed Wallace

I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three:…

— Ann Coulter

Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois…

— Patrick Howley

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…

— Emanuel Cleaver

The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party…

— Herman Cain

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited in me an excitement that…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a…

— Barack Obama

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came…

— Jim DeMint

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats…

— Paul Auster

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate…

— Jimmy Carter

It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the…

— Anand Giridharadas

When the 2010 election swept Republicans into office in a massive tidal wave, they were part of a philosophical and ideological change.…

— Rick Wilson

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

— Daniel Tosh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Herman Cain

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

— Cynthia Payne

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

— Ari Melber

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

— Claire McCaskill

“Kinetic meant violent; a gunfight was kinetic, a tea party was nonkinetic.”

— Peter Van Buren

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

— Roy Blunt

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

— Rush Limbaugh

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

— Andrew Shaffer

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

— Jeb Hensarling

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

— Richard Mourdock

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

— Maxine

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

— Tim Scott

“Nay, father. Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party. - Thor,…

— Matt Fraction