Candidate Quote by Matt Rosendale

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be…

— Tim Scott

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses.…

— William J. Clinton

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

— Bob Inglis

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

— Andrew Breitbart

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah…

— Penn Jillette

The Tea Parties, fueled by wealthy multimillionaires, are running extreme candidates - including women like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell - who want to…

— Neera Tanden

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on…

— Ben Shapiro

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

— Mike Gallagher

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

— Mark McKinnon

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

— Sarah Palin

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a…

— Jimmy Carter

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned…

— Jim DeMint