Quotes About Politics

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

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

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

The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.

Trump has been donating big money and influencing politics for years. In fact, while conservative Tea Party groups were working extremely hard to defeat ObamaCare before it passed in 2010, Trump was sending checks to Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders who eventually passed ObamaCare without a single Republican vote.

2010 was sort of this shock and shift in congress, with the real emergence of the Tea Party.

When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.

You combine the Tea Party along with our support with the Republican base and grassroots, and it makes for a winning combination.

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

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

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

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

I received endorsements from Tea Party to moderates alike. And I think that's unique, and that's something I'm proud of.

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

Not all Republicans in the class of 2010 owe their seats to the Tea Party. But many do.

Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.

Maybe the Tea Party dream is coming true, and the next Republican presidential nominee will be a blunt-object, red-meat down-the-line rightie.

The Tea Party ain't nothing but the Klan in street clothes. I liked 'em better when they were in the sheets, at least I could spot them.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

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.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

I think that's what activates the Tea Party Movement. What they see is the government interfering with their lives and with the inheritance of their children. Are we going to pass down liberty or deficits? And that's really what this movement is about.