Afford Quote by Karl Rove

The Tea Party movement started in late 2008 as a rejection of President George W. Bush's bailout of the auto industry and Obama's excessive…

— Katie Pavlich

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the…

— Kristi Noem

There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing…

— Al Gore

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the…

— Robert Reich

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely…

— Matt Taibbi

“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

“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

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

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

— Andrew Sullivan

“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 movement has challenged the GOP to get back on track or risk losing its grip on the right wing. It's reminded…

— Dana Loesch