“Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.” PartyLeaderVictoryRepublicanTeaRidingCowboyTea PartyStallions Author:Ron Fournier
“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.” IfsThinkingWorldWantPoliticalPartyDogTypeRepublicanMessagesBlueDemocraticDemocratConservativeTeaRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesModeratesSpectrumTea PartyConservative Party Author:Carl Paladino
“Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.” Has BeensSeemsHousePartyRepublicanRight NowTeaTea Party Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“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.” PeopleWayPartyRepublicanWingsFolksImmigrationTeaCommerceRepublican PartyChamberTea PartyChamber Of Commerce Author:Julie Roginsky
“I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.” ThinkingPartyIssuesRepublicanDemocratConservativeTeaGet BackTea Party Author:Michael Enzi
“If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.” IfsPartyRepublicanRootsTeaRepublican PartyComing BackTea Party Author:Richard Mourdock
“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.” PoliticalPartyEconomyWillingRepublicanTeaScoreTea PartyHostage Author:Martin Heinrich
“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.” ForcePartyRepublicanUnionsTeaTea PartyWalkersGopPublic SectorCollective Bargaining Author:Howard Fineman
“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.” TogetherFightingPartyStruggleRepublicanClaimsTeaWorking TogetherRepublican PartyTea PartyBannerRift Author:Michael Steele
“The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.” ThinkingCountryRealityPartyMovementRepublicanPartnersTeaTea PartyGopTea Party Movement Author:Michael Steele
“It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLongDoeHandsGovernmentRealizingPartyTalkingCuttingStreetsWallFineRepublicanTaxesMembersLowsObviousTeaElderlyMedicareAbolishTea PartyOccupy Wall Street Author:Bruce Bartlett
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up with the Republican Party, the Tea Party types, the people fed up with the Republican Washington establishment, Democrats included.” PeopleTogetherPartyMovementTypeTrumpRepublicanDemocratTeaFedsEstablishmentRepublican PartyTea PartyFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.” KnowsPartyRepublicanDemocratScaredTeaRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.” ThinkingBelieveReasonRunningSchoolAmericaLosesPartyOpinionGoneDemocracyMovementRepublicanConservativeTeaReason WhyMidstEstablishmentElitesTanksTea Party Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.” IfsMenBelieveLongUseTogetherUsedWhitePartyRichTrumpRepublicanShotsVoteMajorityStrategyTeaMinoritiesWhite ManTacticsRepresentingTea PartyPopular VoteLong Shots Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.” BeliefPartyRepublicanMajorityConservativeTeaEstablishmentTiedDarlingTea PartyMarcos Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party, in terms of moving the country in a particular direction. It's a direction I disagreed with. But it showed that, in fact, you get involved, if your voice is heard it has an impact.” IfsGivingMadeCountryFactsMovingVoiceTermDifferencesPartyHeardParticularHugeInvolvedRepublicanImpactCreditTeaRepublican PartyGet InvolvedDisagreementTea Party Author:Barack Obama
“Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.” ChildrenRealHousePartyLeaderProductsRepublicanPaidMajorityTeaCandidatesComprehensiveTea PartyKevinCaucusProgenyMajority Leader Author:Mark Shields
“The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.” WayLooksPartyRepublicanTownsActivismTeaHallsVehicleRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Mark Shields
“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.” RememberPartyRepublicanBeatsDown AndTeaEstablishmentRepublican PartyTea PartyTempting Author:Mark Shields
“Folks, let me ask you a question about that. You voted in 2010, 2014. You're part of the Tea Party and you show up and you just vote. Republicans said they needed the House, and you gave it to 'em; then they said they needed the Senate, and you gave it to 'em. Do you feel like winners even after those two elections? Probably not, because you really didn't think the Republican Party was going to change their stripes and start acting on all this.” ThinkingFeelsSaidTwoShowsAsksHousePartyActingNeededRepublicanVoteLet MeElectionFolksTeaWinnerEmsSenateThey SaidRepublican PartyTea PartyStripes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.” PeopleIfsWantYearsCountryLightCareAbleFightingBlackWhitePartyHeroRepublicanHundredDoctorsVoteSickDon't CareTeaI Don't CareBlack PeopleCoalTea PartyMinersDisposableCoal MinersAmerican Hero Author:Van Jones
“I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I am the mayor of Democrats and Republicans, Independents, Tea Party, and the unenrolled. I am the mayor of conservatives and progressives. I am the mayor of all the different races. I am the mayor of the rich and the poor.” PeopleDifferentPoorPartyRaceRichRepublicanDemocraticDemocratTeaBostonMayorsTea PartyDifferent Races Author:Marty Walsh
“The Tea Party is not monolithic. There is a battle between people who care about liberty and the Constitution and the Republican Establishment who is trying to take ownership of it and redirect it for its own purposes.” PeopleTryingCarePurposePartyLibertyRepublicanBattleConstitutionTeaEstablishmentOwnershipWho CaresTea Party Author:Naomi Wolf