Krystal Ball Quotes

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

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.

Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation and taxes, and to return power to individuals to arrange their lives as they see fit. But they have never entirely managed to eradicate the New Deal government.

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

I don’t want to eliminate government. I just want to shrink it down to the size that you can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the tub.

I want a government that does nothing.

[Barry] Goldwater wants to repeal the present and veto the future.

Attention shouldn't be on finding ways to build a better government; we should be looking at how to get government out of our lives.

Following the pattern of right-wing philosophizing, he [Barry Goldwater] proves his points by quoting 18th-Century Americans, 19th-Century Englishmen, and 20th-Century Communists.

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

I don’t want to kill the government. I just want to shrink it down to a small enough size that I can flush it down the toilet.

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher, was a precursor to the American Tea Party.

To people in virtually any age before our own, the only argument that mattered was between extremely small government and no government at all. Extremely small government meant there was at least some law and order; no government meant that there was not.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.

I love Texas itself. The landscape is remarkable. The combination of cultures here is incredible. And the history here is pretty remarkable, too, going back centuries.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

Texas is a pretty free state.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

I've got to say, I'm a Rand Paul fan.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

Personally, I'm right of center.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.