Quotes About Activism

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

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.

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.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

I was at St. Louis's very first tea party and stood across the mighty Mississippi on the Arch steps with a bunch of wide-eyed, virgin protesters who were just as shocked as I was to see the amount of people who had assembled.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.

While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.

Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.

On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.