I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.

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

It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement.