John Catsimatidis Quotes

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

I am a Reagan Republican: I believe in Free Market Capitalism; I believe in economic growth.

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

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

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

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

I consider myself a Republican.

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

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

They [the conservative Republicans] have tried to sell us this trickle down fairy dust before.

I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.

House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.

The Republican Party is in a great place for 2018 and I think Americans will continue to support the Trump agenda.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.