Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

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.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

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

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

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

You know I have had Tea Party support.

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

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

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

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.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official 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.

I consider myself a Republican.

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

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.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

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

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that's the future of the party.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.

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.