“I’m deeply resentful — I don’t care where you find it in life — of people trying to claim credit for the achievements of others. That really rubs me raw.”
“The Tea Party elites? That’s a new one. There aren’t any Tea Party elites, by definition. The elites are all found in both party establishments.”
“I’m really proud of this, folks. You have to understand. It hasn’t been easy making half the country hate me.”
“Redistributing wealth is not a legitimate government function. Nationalizing industries, taking them over, that’s for people like Hugo Chavez, not us. Destroying industries, targeting industries for destruction, picking and choosing winners and losers in the private sector, like Obama has been doing since his first day, that isn’t legitimate.”
“For us as conservatives, Wisconsin and Governor Walker, everything that we want to happen, happened there.”
“We want somebody who believes in conservatism and can articulate it, who gets elected on that basis and then implements it. Everything that we are demanding as voters, everything that you as Tea Party members are demanding, Scott Walker did.”
“We are in the middle of a government-run program meltdown: Obamacare. We are beyond theory now; people are living in the middle of government screwing up something that they enjoyed, and so what has to happen? You gotta send the cavalry out there to defend the government. You gotta make sure that all of these people encountering misery and messes and disappointment and anger because of Obamacare are told that it’s Rush Limbaugh’s fault and Fox News’ fault.”
“When does the bipartisanship start? It’s always a one-way street. Whenever you hear a Democrat talk, they never talk about themselves being bipartisan. All they do is demand that Republicans be bipartisan. Of course, what that means is that Republicans should just give up everything they believe in. So when does this bipartisanship start?”
“If anybody is responsible for the creation of the Tea Party, it’s the president himself and his party and their policies. Their spending and the racking up of more debt, and their economic destruction brought to life a political movement that was dormant.”
“The Tea Party is a huge story in American politics. It’s being ignored and tamped down and impugned and criticized because the Democrats are so afraid of it. Precisely because they can’t control it, and precisely because the people in the Tea Party, the people who call themselves Tea Partiers, are independent thinkers. They are not the product of mind control or propaganda. They believe what they believe because they’re engaged.”
“The Tea Party can be talked into staying home if the people they expect to represent them fall short, as happened in the presidential race in 2012, when four million of them didn’t vote.”
“The Tea Party is just the quintessential American citizen engaging in Citizenship 101. That’s what the Democrats can’t deal with. That’s what they can’t stand.”
“This ‘law of the land’ business only works one way. When the Democrats don’t like the law of the land, they just say to hell with it.”
“If anybody is responsible for the creation of the Tea Party, it’s the president himself and his party and their policies. Their spending and the racking up of more debt, and their economic destruction brought to life a political movement that was dormant.”