Tea Party Quotes - Page 3

• Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

  Ron Fournier

  Party, Cowboy, Leader

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

  Jim DeMint

  Party, People, Tea

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• It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Class, Interesting

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• 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.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Media, Tea

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• The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, Tea, Politician

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• The Tea Party claims to want small government.

  Penn Jillette

  Party, Government, Tea

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Party, Government

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

  Russ Feingold

  Party, Tea, Looks

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• 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.

  Eleanor Clift

  Party, Effort, Tea

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• Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep. And when I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last - this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them - and the next thing you know, they’re fucking knocked out. And that’s what’s going on in the country right now.

  Chris Rock

  Country, Crazy, Party

  "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down, but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Men, Perfectly Good

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• The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities.

  Andre Carson

  Party, Oil, African American

  "Democratic Rep: Tea Party Would Love To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.

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• The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

  David Brooks

  Party, Past, Class

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• 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.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

  Ishmael Reed

  Party, Tea, Scooters

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• 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?

  Howie Carr

  Running, Morning, Party

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• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  Thomas Hardy

  Family, Mother, Party

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.1025, Open Road Media

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

  Holly Black

  Party, Tea, Dolls

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Russell T Davies

  War, Party, Fall

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• New Rule: Stop asking Miss USA contestants if they believe in evolution. It’s not their field. It’s like asking Stephen Hawking if he believes in hair scrunchies. Here’s what they know about: spray tans, fake boobs and baton twirling. Here’s what they don’t know about: everything else. If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I’d join the Tea Party.

  Bill Maher

  Queens, Party, Believe

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• Essentially, the Tea Party are the Hell's Angels, but with sun visors instead of switch blades. They push macaroni instead of meth. Mess with the Tea Party and they'll put your dog in an American flag sweater on a hot day.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Party, Angel

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• 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Believe, Tea

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• 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

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Cat, Tea

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

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Guy

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