Quotes About Politics

Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem.

The alt-right is the Tea Party's younger, cooler, meaner brother. Like if the movie 'Back to The Future' was just about Biff.

I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

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

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

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

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.

When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.

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 myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

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

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

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

The Republicans are not anti-Latinos. You know, I tell the story all the time that the Tea Party is the one that has actually brought out the Latinos. Look at Idaho. I actually ran against a person in my primary who was born and raised in Idaho who happened to be Caucasian, and they elected the guy who was from Puerto Rico with an accent.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

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.

The Tea Party loves Reagan because he said exactly what they want to hear.

What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.