Tea Party Quotes

Tea Party Quote of the day

I am not afraid of anybody. 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.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

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

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.

Even the klan revamped their image by losing the hoods and changing their name to the Tea Party.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

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

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

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

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

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

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

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

I am a defender 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.

The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.

I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.

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

Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.