Quotes About Influence

I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.

People were like, 'he's collaborating with Taylor Swift' and I was like, 'I am?' I think she's wonderful. Her songwriting has inspired me for years.

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

I've been a fan of Taylor Swift for years - ever since I heard her song 'Love Story.' I'm also a really big fan of Selena Gomez - I really started listening to her a lot in the months before and during my court martial in 2013.

I learned a long time ago, Don't ever doubt the power of Taylor Swift.

I'm like the male Taylor Swift.

All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.

I love Taylor Swift, and I've always been such a fan of her.

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

Though I'd always known in an intellectual way that rock and roll was a 'black' form - the way I know that English breakfast tea is Indian - I had never felt this truth.

Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to 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.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

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.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

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

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.

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.