Appreciate Quote by Mark Shields

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And…

— Mark Shields

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

The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the…

— Mark Shields

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of…

— Ezra G. Levin

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

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

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

— Dana Loesch

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

“The notion that the Tea Party represented the righteous, if unfocused, anger of an aggrieved class allowed everyone from leftists to neoliberals to white…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates