Tea party Quotes · Page 5

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

— Ken Cuccinelli

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

— Edward Brooke

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

— Michele Bachmann

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

— Ron Fournier

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

— Patrick Henry

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

“Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party”

— Thomas E. Mann

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

— Tim Scott

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

— Marco Rubio

There's a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can't because it's not the…

— Bill Maher

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be…

— Rush Limbaugh

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…

— Jeff Goodell

What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption…

— Robert P. George

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because…

— Ben Shapiro

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of…

— Sharron Angle

All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing, uh, clothing, uh, with a…

— Sheila Jackson Lee

The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up…

— Rush Limbaugh

“The indoor picnic had been laid out in an octagonal-shaped sunroom featuring an atrium set in the center of the stone floor.…

— Lisa Kleypas

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff,…

— Chris Rock

The Tea Party was regularly smeared in media as a violent, bigoted, 'astroturf' movement hellbent on opposing the first black president because…

— Katie Pavlich

Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you…

— Bill Ayers

Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida,…

— Mark McKinnon

The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of…

— Thomas Pogge

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from…

— John Cornyn

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

— Matt Fraction

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

— Maxine

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

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

— Roy Blunt

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

— Andrew Shaffer

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

— Ari Melber

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

— Peter Van Buren

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

— Claire McCaskill

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

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

— Daniel Tosh

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

— Sharron Angle

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

— Bart Stupak

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