August Quote by Karl Rove

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional…

— Noam Chomsky

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about…

— Steven Van Zandt

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like…

— Bill O'Reilly

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

— Sharron Angle

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the…

— Andrew Sullivan

The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat…

— Dana Loesch

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

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

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

You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits…

— Mark McKinnon

“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business practices, and…

— Matt Taibbi

“The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and…

— Juan Williams