Charles E. Schumer 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.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican 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 think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

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

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

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

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.

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

Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I see a lot of parallels between my candidacy and the Tea Party. I would not have been elected had there not been a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction and discouragement and disgust with what was going on in Washington.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

I am a defender of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

I am a Reagan Republican.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.