Quotes About Politics

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

I don't think I would be characterized as a Tea Party candidate; I would be characterized as the most effective candidate.

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.

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

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.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

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

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.

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.

The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

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

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.

The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

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.

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.