Tea party Quotes · Page 5

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

— Andrew Breitbart

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

— Rick Santelli

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

— Kenneth Grahame

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

— Jim Webb

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

— Matt Taibbi

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

— Paul Begala

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

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support -…

— Steve Scalise

“Virtually every Tea Party advocate I interviewed for this book has personally benefited from a major government service or has close family…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

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

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

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

— Marco Rubio

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but…

— Matt Kibbe

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular…

— David Brooks

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that…

— Raul Labrador

“I have often wondered whether it is really a good thing to be honest by nature and upbringing; certainly it is not…

— Barbara Pym

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 tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is…

— Ezra G. Levin

“On closer inspection, as the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol and the Ph.D. student Vanessa Williamson observed in their 2012 book, The…

— Jane Mayer

Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the…

— Jim Hightower

“Thousands upon thousands of government employees take to the streets to protest the bill. Here is Greece’s version of the Tea Party:…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Rush Limbaugh

“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

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

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

— Eric Bolling

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

— Bart Stupak

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

— Sharron Angle

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

— Daniel Tosh

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

— Ann Coulter

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

— Thomas E. Mann

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

— Ron Fournier

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

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

— Patrick Henry