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First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. -- Steven Van Zandt
Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves. -- Julian Bond
I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table. -- Roy Blunt
Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them. -- Bill Maher
If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots. -- Richard Mourdock
You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used. -- Rick Ungar
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do. -- Howard Dean
To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party. -- Adelle Davis
The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around. -- Bill Maher
I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell. -- Maxine Waters
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. -- Rand Paul
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. -- Janeane Garofalo
If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around. -- Gail Collins
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming. -- Rand Paul
Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets. -- Jason Chaffetz
The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. -- Chuck Schumer
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. -- Gideon Rachman
Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist. -- Jim Webb
Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again! -- Lewis Carroll
My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement. -- Mike Lee
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues. -- Hanna Rosin
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back. -- Rand Paul
Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it. -- Matt Kibbe
I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties. -- Michael Enzi
They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage. -- Jonathan Richman
Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control. -- Russ Feingold
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President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. -- Ben Shapiro
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. -- Harry Reid
Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s. -- Jonathan Raban
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map. -- Eugene Jarecki
People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them. -- Niger Innis
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. -- Eliot Spitzer
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. -- William J. Clinton
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will take our country back from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, theres a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change. -- Matt Taibbi
I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do. -- Allen West
The Tea Party doesn't like politicians. -- Jim DeMint
I'm more of a Tea Party person. -- Andrew Breitbart
I've never attended any Tea Party functions. -- John Bolton
I am a defender of the Tea Party. -- Andrew Breitbart
You know I have had Tea Party support. -- Renee Ellmers
The Tea Party claims to want small government. -- Penn Jillette
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. -- Ishmael Reed
It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party. -- Russ Feingold
The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America. -- Russ Feingold
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. -- Nancy Pearcey
At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. -- Matt Taibbi
I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. -- Niger Innis
When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. -- Claire McCaskill
I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities. -- Tim Scott
So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party. -- Kristi Noem
The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. -- Harry Reid
Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around. -- Jim DeMint
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party. -- Bob Inglis
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. -- David Remnick
I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers. -- Eric Bolling
[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country. -- Paul Begala
Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them. -- Ann Coulter
I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better. -- Bill Maher
The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody. -- Bob Barr
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president. -- Ron Fournier
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. -- Grover Norquist
The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. -- Michele Bachmann
Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. -- Rush Limbaugh
Obama passes Obamacare, the Tea Party comes into existence over two things: this out of control Obama spending. -- Rush Limbaugh
The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. -- Sarah Palin
Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party. -- Daniel Tosh
In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party. -- Jeb Hensarling
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories. -- Ron Fournier
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. -- Hank Johnson
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. -- Amy Goodman
In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party. -- Andrew Breitbart
The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate. -- Mike Lee
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets. -- Tim Scott
Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. -- Michele Bachmann
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. -- Grover Norquist
In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved. -- Eric Bolling
I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are. -- Austin Scott
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. -- Mark McKinnon
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party. -- Gwen Moore
The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise. -- Chuck Schumer
After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let's get it on.' -- Maxine
When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight". -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. -- Robert Reich
The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force. -- Howard Fineman
Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support. -- George Stephanopoulos
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The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. -- Jon Stewart
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country. -- Michael Steele
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that. -- Martin Heinrich
I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody. -- Donald Trump
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests. -- Matt Taibbi
There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way. -- Julie Roginsky
The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government. -- Chuck Schumer
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed. -- Eugene Jarecki
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for. -- Luke Scott
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. -- Matt Taibbi
I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff! -- Russell T Davies
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I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't. -- Sharron Angle
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama. -- Naomi Wolf
Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program. -- Eleanor Clift
There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel. -- Adam Hasner
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement. -- Dick Armey
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities, -- Andre Carson
I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement. -- Dick Armey
Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. -- Newt Gingrich
I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything. -- Lupe Fiasco
I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party. -- Katie Pavlich
Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins. -- Lindsey Graham
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior. -- James Wolcott
The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become. -- Hampton Sides
He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation. -- Jeffrey Rosen
I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks. -- Rand Paul
Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness. -- Jonathan Haidt

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