John Bolton Quotes

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

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

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.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official 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 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.

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

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

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

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

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

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

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

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 am a defender of the Tea Party.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

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

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

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.