Tea Party Quotes

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow.

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.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

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

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

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

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

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

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.

I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody.

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

If people don't get as engaged as the tea party was, we're going to lose.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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

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

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

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

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

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

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

When [Marco] Rubio won the election, he was a Tea Party darling, he was a Tea Party favorite. What happened? "Gang of Eight".

It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

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