Eugene Jarecki 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.

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 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.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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.

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

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

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

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

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

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.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they're going to comport themselves and how they're going to run things.

The Tea Party loves Reagan because he said exactly what they want to hear.

The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.

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

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

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

I am a defender of the Tea Party.

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?

I'm a believer in the Tea Party. I love the Tea Party. I love the people in the Tea Party. And, yes, I have a lot of different likes and maybe dislikes. And I don't know why.