Away Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

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

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

— Chrystia Freeland

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

Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power…

— Jim Hightower

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

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 is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out Democrats, but the Republicans are…

— Brad Thor

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 Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional…

— Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits…

— Mike Lee

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

Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th…

— Andrew Neil