Acting Quote by Rush Limbaugh

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

Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.

— Andrew Neil

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they…

— Matt Taibbi

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 can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have…

— Jimmy Carter

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

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea Party because…

— Rush Limbaugh

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

— Bill Maher

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

Riding a wave of anti-establishment and anti-Obama anger, Tea Party candidates knocked off Democrats and Republicans alike.

— Harry Enten

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it,…

— Patrick Murphy