Jeff Sessions Quotes

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

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

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.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.

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.

I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

We elect Democrats to Congress to give us stuff. We elect Republicans to the White House so that we don't have to pay for it.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.