Russ Feingold Quotes

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.

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

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.

You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there.

The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.

Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.

The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?

Tea Party protesters are corporate America's useful idiots.

The Tea Party was a grass roots movement and then the Koch Brothers came along. So now we have the Tea Party on coke.

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

People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.

The tea party movement has challenged the GOP to get back on track or risk losing its grip on the right wing. It's reminded Democrats that a slick marketing campaign coupled with paid activism isn't the same as a groundswell of real change, and the reason that Democrats are so hostile towards it is because they've never before encountered it.

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

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

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

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

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.

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

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

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

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.

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I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

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