Tea Party Quotes - Page 6

• I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.

  Mark Shields

  Philosophy, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  Children, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Government, People

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

  Keith Olbermann

  Party, Heart, Reality

  "Keith Olbermann Returns With Special Comment: GOP Self-Destruction, Driving ‘Political Toyota’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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

  Bill Maher

  Party, Beer, Tea

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• Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

  Lindsey Graham

  Party, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Government, Tea

  "The First Tea Party President?". Interview with Erick Erickson, townhall.com. January 02, 2015.

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• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Tea, Wave

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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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• Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

  Alan Grayson

  Party, People, Tea

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• 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.

  Dick Armey

  Mistake, Party, Player

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• 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.

  Sharron Angle

  Party, Thinking, Organization

  "Sharron Angle in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2010.

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• My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.

  Cynthia Payne

  Sex, Party, Tea

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• 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.

  Kristi Noem

  Party, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Jonathan Richman

  Party, Ties, Boston

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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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• There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Moving, Party

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• Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.

  Patrick Howley

  Party, Political, Tea

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Gay

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, 'Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.'

  Maxine

  Good Night, Party, Sleep

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

  Amy Goodman

  Wall, Party, Numbers

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

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

  Kristi Noem

  Party, Home, Tea

  "Interview with Representative Krisi Noem". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 8, 2011.

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