Roy Blunt Quotes

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

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 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.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

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

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

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 do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

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

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.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.

I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.

The Tea Party movement started in late 2008 as a rejection of President George W. Bush's bailout of the auto industry and Obama's excessive stimulus spending. It evolved into a movement opposed to ObamaCare, and grassroots efforts were employed to find qualified political candidates who could beat incumbents.

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.