Conservative Quote by Gail Collins

Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according…

— Patrick Howley

What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They…

— Bill Maher

It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called…

— Joe Biden

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party…

— Jennifer Granholm

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our…

— Paul Laxalt

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by…

— Christopher Dodd

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like…

— Edward V. Long

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

— Grover Norquist

“A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful…

— Matt Taibbi

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is…

— John Warner

“It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one…

— Jonathan Schell

“The Boston Tea Party was a protest against an unelected leader who raised taxes, while Obama was an elected leader who had just cut…

— Jane Mayer