Able Quote by Allen West

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues…

— Michael Enzi

The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the Republicans are…

— Brad Thor

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

— Richard Mourdock

I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that…

— Marco Rubio

Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th…

— Andrew Neil

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

— Roy Blunt

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

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

— Sarah Palin

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…

— Sharron Angle

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term limits, things…

— Rand Paul

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…

— Ari Fleischer

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,…

— John Boozman