Candidates Quote by Mark Shields

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

McCarthy had ten years in the House of Representatives, only two terms as a senator. What did he pass? Are there any bills or…

— Robert Dallek

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party…

— Steve Scalise

The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York…

— Robert Dallek

“Writing in the New York Times, David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee, argued that the rise of the Tea…

— George Hawley

I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and…

— Katie Pavlich

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

— Pat Buchanan

The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for…

— John Allen Fraser

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene…

— George Packer

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

— Vanessa L. Williams

The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom or insufficient…

— Steve Kornacki

“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