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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.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

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.

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

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.

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

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.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

I am very much a Republican.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

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

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.

The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they're going to comport themselves and how they're going to run things.

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.

I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.

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

The real boneheads are the libertarians.