The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can. — Rush D. Holt, Jr Copy Share Image
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party” — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody. — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but… — David Joyce Copy Share Image
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“Ten years after the Boston Tea Party, tea was still far more popular than coffee, which only became the more popular drink… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“As a college dropout with no exceptional charisma or charm, Walker might not ordinarily have been marked for high office, but Americans… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit,… — John Boozman Copy Share Image
“How are you even here? Didn’t Greg take you home last night?” She pulls back and looks away but not before I… — Harper Sloan Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of… — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists… — Matt Kibbe Copy Share Image
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
From the Tea Party to Mitt Romney's '47 percent' to Trump's make-believe tales of fraud and illegal voting, Republicans treat Democratic voters… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are… — Julie Roginsky Copy Share Image
Do we want our state to be defined by the bankrupt and intolerant values of Donald Trump? Do we want the values… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
“Ailes had a suggestion: “Speaker Boehner.” (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Maybe the Tea Party dream is coming true, and the next Republican presidential nominee will be a blunt-object, red-meat down-the-line rightie. — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
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