Politician Quote by Steve Kornacki

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

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

— Harry Enten

“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

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah…

— Penn Jillette

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

— Steve Bannon

The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its…

— Andrew Neil

“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

The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat…

— Dana Loesch

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 notion that the Tea Party represented the righteous, if unfocused, anger of an aggrieved class allowed everyone from leftists to neoliberals to white…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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