Able Quote by Chuck Schumer

“The Tea Party Movement was a mass rebellion funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick…

— Jane Mayer

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really…

— Chrystia Freeland

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

— Robert Reich

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more…

— Newt Gingrich

The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were…

— Chuck Schumer

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

— Jane Mayer

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Ezra G. Levin

The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job…

— Dana Loesch

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's…

— Karl Rove

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional…

— Andrew Breitbart

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

— Chrystia Freeland