Tea Party Quotes - Page 6

• The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Political, Historical

  "Tea Party Movement Rescued the GOP" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 22, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

  Ishmael Reed

  Party, Tea, Scooters

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

  George S. Patton

  Running, Nice, Party

  "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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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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• The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Moving, Winning

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• President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.

  Argus Hamilton

  Party, Always Trying, America

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• 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.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, America, Tea

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• The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

  Naomi Wolf

  Party, People, Tea

  "God Crashes the Tea Party" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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

  Hanna Rosin

  Party, Issues, Tea

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• and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Mean, Tea

  Virginia Woolf (1983). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1931-1935”, Mariner Books

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• Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Running, Wall, Party

  "As coherent an articulation of our economic problem as any I have seen in my lifetime" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  "CNN's Parker-Spitzer Endorse Matt Taibbi's Anti-Conservative Message". Interview with Matthew Balan, www.newsbusters.org. November 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, People, Tea

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• Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

  Juan Williams

  Running, Party, Independent

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• 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.

  Katie Pavlich

  Party, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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

  Daniel Tosh

  Party, Names, Tea

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• He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Believe, Tea

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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.

  Ben Wikler

  Powerful, Party, Exercise

  "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

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• I'm more of a Tea Party person.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Tea, Persons

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• 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.

  Gary Gulman

  Christian, Couple, Party

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

  Arlen Specter

  Party, Tea, Important

  "Specter warns of tea party 'takeover'" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Issues, Tea

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