Darling Quote by Rush Limbaugh

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to…

— Rush Limbaugh

The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view…

— Mark Shields

“The Tea Party Movement was a mass rebellion funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick…

— Jane Mayer

“The Boston Tea Party was a protest against an unelected leader who raised taxes, while Obama was an elected leader who had just cut…

— Jane Mayer

“[T]he Tea Party was not so much an official political group as a culture, a way of seeing and feeling about a place and…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th,…

— Karl Rove

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

“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

[Marco Rubio] a total non-show senator. I mean, he was elected - he defrauded the people of Florida. He was elected to be a…

— Donald Trump

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

— Russ Feingold

The first Tea Party protest was scheduled for Inauguration Day. So what were they upset about? Which part of the job he was doing…

— Janeane Garofalo

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

— Ron Fournier