Karl Rove Quotes

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

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.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

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.

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.

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.

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

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

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.

The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

I don’t believe in subsidized programs because by and large they are not sustainable.

We bailed out the S&Ls. Why can't we bail out my city?

The Bush White House sold out the birthright of the Republican Party by bailing out Wall Street.

Tea Party protesters are corporate America's useful idiots.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

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