Jim DeMint Quotes

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.

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

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.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

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

I am a defender of the Tea Party.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

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.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

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.

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

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

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

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.

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

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

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?

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

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

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.