Tea Party Quotes - Page 8

• First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Party, Thinking, Tea

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• Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

  Russ Feingold

  Wall, Party, Glasses

  "Feingold courts tea party votes" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. October 08, 2010.

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• There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Cheer, Party, Tea

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Tea, Way, Motivated

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• 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.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Selfish, Party, Thinking

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• The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic political reform path leads to apathy and the kind of mindless frustration that manifests itself in the Tea Party-style hatred of any and all government.

  Thomas Pogge

  Party, Frustration, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

  Ted Nugent

  Party, Government, Tea

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.

  Paul Auster

  Art, War, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Democrats don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party engineered their defeat. The Republicans, some members, don't like the Tea Party because the Tea Party illustrates what they have to do to win and they're not really comfortable with that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, Tea

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Michael Steele

  Struggle, Party, Fighting

  "Countdown to Election Day; Miners Tell Their Tale; Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94; President and First Lady Campaigning". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

  Michael Steele

  Country, Party, Reality

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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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• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  Adam Hasner

  Strong, Party, Israel

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• 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.

  Martin Heinrich

  Party, Political, Tea

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• There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Recovery, Race

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• It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Party, People, Tea

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

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• My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

  Rob Reiner

  Hate, Party, Guy

  "Rob Reiner likens 'tea party' movement to Hitler". latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.

  Eric Cantor

  Party, Thinking, Perspective

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• I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

  Rand Paul

  Leadership, Party, Technology

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• Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?

  Rand Paul

  Nature, Party, Science

  "Rand Paul bashes ‘alarmist,’ ‘ignoramus’ climate change claims" By Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. April 23, 2014.

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• As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

  Mark McKinnon

  Strong, Party, Voice

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• Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

  Edward Brooke

  Party, Moving, Tea

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• The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

  Harry Reid

  Party, Believe, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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