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.

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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.

— Ken Cuccinelli

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

— Rick Santelli

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.

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

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The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

— Sarah Palin

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