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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

I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether…

— Mark Shields

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

— David Limbaugh

“The Tea Party that reenergized the GOP in 2010 and that implacably attacked Obama turned out to be a familiar nemesis of liberalism and…

— Ian Haney López

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George…

— Naomi Wolf

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

— Hank Johnson

Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Tea Party movement started in late 2008 as a rejection of President George W. Bush's bailout of the auto industry and Obama's excessive…

— Katie Pavlich

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of…

— Ari Fleischer

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects…

— Eugene Jarecki

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

— Mike Lee

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as…

— Juan Williams