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Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!
My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.
The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.
I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.
Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.
I received endorsements from Tea Party to moderates alike. And I think that's unique, and that's something I'm proud of.
Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.
The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.
I don't think I would be characterized as a Tea Party candidate; I would be characterized as the most effective candidate.
It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
You combine the Tea Party along with our support with the Republican base and grassroots, and it makes for a winning combination.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.
I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.
I don't consider myself to be a Pete King Republican or a Ted Cruz Republican or a John Boehner Republican, or a Tea Party Republican.
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.
Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking.
I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody.
This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.
The tea party wants to empower people with opportunity and the freedom for the individual to pursue success and keep the fruits of their success.
Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.
The Tea Party isn't out to be a third force in American politics. Instead, it has infiltrated the Republicans and remoulded them in its own image.
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.
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.
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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.
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.
What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really good for the elites.
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.
Like all populist movements, the Tea Party will eventually peter out. It won't succeed in returning America to the minimalist state of the 19th century.
Steph's such a good dad for girls. He's super attentive, and he's, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.
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.
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.