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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

— Hanna Rosin

I don't think I would be characterized as a Tea Party candidate; I would be characterized as the most effective candidate.

— Matt Rosendale

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

— Mike Gallagher

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

— Michele Bachmann

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

The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that…

— Steve Bannon

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a…

— Lindsey Graham

“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

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

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

— Robert Reich

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make…

— Jennifer Granholm

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

— Mark McKinnon