EMM News Explorer: Tea Party

Ralph Reed [ said]: He's got to gain not just the acquiescence of, but the enthusiasm of social and Tea Party conservatives in order to win in November, should he be the nominee,

CBSnews 10-FEB-12

Santorum [-said]: We should recognize, as conservatives and Tea Party folks, that we are not just wings of the Republican Party,

upi 10-FEB-12

Santorum [ said]: Tonight was a victory for the voices of our party... conservatives and Tea Party people who are out there every single day and night in the vineyards building the conservative movement in this country... building the base of the Republican party... and building a voice for freedom in this land... thank you,

chosun 09-FEB-12

Santorum [-said]: Tonight was a victory for the voices of our party, conservatives and Tea Party people, who are out there every single day in the vineyards building the conservative movement in this country,

dailystar 08-FEB-12

Santorum [-told]: Tonight was a victory for the voices of our party, conservatives and Tea Party people,

usaToday 08-FEB-12

Romney [ said]: One of the reasons the Tea Party grew up, of course, is that people were unhappy about incumbents, people who had spent their careers in Washington borrowing, spending and earmarking,

ABCnews 08-FEB-12

Bachmann [-said]: I truly believe that we will see a coming-together of all factions of our party, the Tea Party insurgents as well as the establishment, we are going to come together and we will unify,

CBSnews 29-JAN-12

Cain [-said]: 1773 was when the colonists got fed up. Their act of defiance was the Boston Tea Party. Two years later, we had the start of the American Revolution. Eight years later we won. We can do it again. We need another revolution. Not bombs and bullets. Brains and ballots. Washington is out of touch with the people. They sometimes forget they work for us. We must remind them. We the people are coming. That's the tea party message,

upi 25-JAN-12

Zogby [ says]: Before Iowa, the majority of Tea Party supporters were saying we prefer a candidate who shares our views, whether or not that candidate can beat President Obama,

bbc 07-JAN-12

smh 04-JAN-12

Steny Hoyer [ said]: We are witnessing the concluding convulsion of confrontation and obstruction in the most unproductive, Tea Party -dominated partisan session of the Congress the most partisan of which I have participated,

IHT 20-DEC-11

Romney [-told]: I think the Tea Party is anxious to have people who are outside Washington coming in to change Washington, as opposed to people who stayed in Washington for 30 years,

msnbc 18-DEC-11

Romney [-said]: I think as Tea Partiers concentrate on that for instance they'll say, 'Wow this really isn't the guy that represents our views,

reuters 17-DEC-11

Haley [replied:]: Tea Partiers can’t be locked up.

IHT 17-DEC-11

Romney [-said]: And I believe on the issues, as well, that I line up with a smaller government, a less intrusive government, regulations being pared back, holding down the tax rates of the American people, maintaining a strong defense, and so many Tea Party folks are going to find me, I believe to be the ideal candidate,

ABCnews 17-DEC-11

Romney [-said]: I think Tea Partiers may have listened to the first debate where we discussed the speaker’s compensation from Freddie Mac, for instance. And he said, I think he said that he got $300,000 from Freddie Mac and it was to work as an historian. And as time has gone on we find out it’s $1.6 million and he worked as a spokesman for, in providing support for Freddie Mac,

ABCnews 17-DEC-11

Brown [ said]: There are a large number of Republican voters, many who describe themselves as Tea Party supporters who are conservative Republicans, and they have been shopping for a candidate,

voanews 15-DEC-11

Reid [-said]: They are wasting time catering to the Tea Party when they should be working with Democrats on a bipartisan package that can pass both houses,

latimes 13-DEC-11

Obama [ said]: All these Republican candidates tripping over (one) another to try and win the votes of the Tea Party and social conservatives are making it a lot harder to carry, for them, states like Colorado,

reuters 08-DEC-11

Obama [-noted]: There has been a raging debate over the best way to restore growth and prosperity, balance and fairness. Throughout the country, it has sparked protests and political movements, from the Tea Party to the people who have been occupying the streets of New York and other cities. It's left Washington in a near-constant state of gridlock,

chinadaily 07-DEC-11

Andrew Kohut [ said]: We know that the image of the G.O.P. has slipped, but to see it slip so dramatically in Tea Party districts is pretty surprising,

IHT 29-NOV-11

Perry [-says]: pandering to the Tea Party.

usaToday 17-NOV-11

Bachmann [-said]: It's made up of the Tea Party movement, and I am one of those,

npr 09-NOV-11

Romney [-answered]: I don't think you carry cards in the Tea Party,

npr 08-NOV-11

Bachmann [-said]: And it's made up of the Tea Party movement and I am one of those,

npr 08-NOV-11

Limbaugh [-said]: This is Obama's protest to counter the Tea Party,

npr 27-OCT-11

Plouffe [ said]: Thirty Tea Party House Republicans are being put before 300 million Americans,

IHT 05-OCT-11

Will [-said]: The energy in the Republican Party is the river of Tea Party sentiment. It initially flowed to Michele Bachmann. Perry entered, it immediately flows largely to him. He has two bad debate performances, it goes to Herman Cain,

ABCnews 04-OCT-11

Falwell [-told]: Our students consider her one of us because of her background and positions on Tea Party issues and social issues,

iol 29-SEP-11

Plouffe [-said]: The Republican leadership is putting (Tea Party) needs ahead of the needs of 300 million Americans. And that has to stop, because we're not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion. And I think the country is tired of it because we are not going to move forwards together as a country unless we do so in a bipartisan way,

upi 25-SEP-11

Plouffe [-said]: That has to stop, because we're not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion,

usaToday 25-SEP-11

Boehner [-said]: >US House of Representatives regrouped yeterday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate. Even in the face of rock-bottom approval ratings, the dispute suggested that lawmakers may not be able to bridge their differences to pass even the most essential legislation. Aid for victims of tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters could dry up by Monday if Congress does not replenish a dwindling relief fund. Funding f

kuwaittimes 23-SEP-11

Reid [-said]: I was optimistic that my House Republican colleagues would learn from their failure yesterday and move towards the middle. Instead, they moved even further towards the Tea Party,

CBSnews 23-SEP-11

Reid [-said]: I'm not that sure (that a shutdown will be averted), because the Tea Party-driven House of Representatives has been so unreasonable in the past, I don't know why they should suddenly be reasonable,

news_com_au 21-SEP-11

Bachmann [says:]: Tea Party

time 13-SEP-11

Sabato [-said that]: It has many of them thinking he's not quite what they thought, he's not a real Tea Partier. I think it's an issue that's going to return to haunt him and it may be his Achilles heel with the right.

guardian 13-SEP-11

Perry [-said]: brought the voice of the Tea Party to the United States Congress as a founder of the Tea Party Caucus.

npr 13-SEP-11

Clinton [-says]: He'll stand up for the middle class, he'll support a good program to put Americans back to work, and he'll oppose the Tea Party plan to destroy Medicare,

usaToday 12-SEP-11

Palin [ said]: she said at an event staged by the conservative Tea Party in Indianola, Iowa. It is not just fear of a double dip recession. And it is not even the shame of a credit downgrade for first time in US history. It is deeper than that,

kuwaittimes 04-SEP-11

Crowley [ says]: He doesn’t have a reputation as a flame-thrower,[*]partly because I think he realizes that by 2016 [when he’s up for re-election] he won’t need the Tea Party anymore. He’s in the catbird seat.

time 25-AUG-11

John Kerry [ declared]: I believe this is without question the Tea Party downgrade,

ahram 19-AUG-11

Gibbs [ said]: The Republicans are going to have to make a choice, are they going to swear allegiance to the Tea Party or are they going to work on behalf of the United States of America,

chosun 18-AUG-11

Romney [-said]: One of the great things about the Tea Party, in my view, is the Tea Party has exactly in almost every respect the same priorities as the rest of Republicans, many, many Independents, and many Democrats,

msnbc 16-AUG-11

Bachmann [-said]: The Tea Party has been the best antidote to the out-of-control spending we have seen,

upi 15-AUG-11

Kerry [-said]: I believe this is without question the Tea Party downgrade. This is the Tea Party downgrade because a minority of people in the House of Representatives countered even the will of many Republicans in the United States Senate who were prepared to do a bigger deal,

upi 08-AUG-11

Axelrod [-said]: The fact of the matter is that this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade,

news 08-AUG-11

Kerry [-said]: I believe this is, without question, the 'Tea Party downgrade,'

upi 07-AUG-11

Graham [-said]: The Tea Party didn't destroy Washington,

usaToday 07-AUG-11

John Kerry [ said]: This is, without question, the Tea Party downgrade,

usaToday 07-AUG-11

Reid [-said]: We need Republicans to stop using common-sense jobs bills as vehicles for the Tea Party's ideological agenda,

usaToday 07-AUG-11

Axelrod [ said]: They played brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States. This is essentially a Tea Party downgrade,

voanews 07-AUG-11

Graham [-said]: The Tea Party hasn't destroyed Washington,

upi 07-AUG-11

Sabato [ says]: The Tea Party's raison d'etre is the national debt,

nzherald 06-AUG-11

Sabato [ says]: The Tea Party refuses to accept the nature of American government, which is compromise,

nzherald 06-AUG-11

Bob Bennett [ said]: Orrin has made the decision to highlight every ultraconservative vote he’s ever made, and he’s going around saying ‘I was Tea Party before it was cool to be Tea Party.’

IHT 03-AUG-11

Robert Draper [ says]: Nearly 40 percent of them are self-styled 'citizen politicians' who have never held office and who rode into Washington on the Tea Party wave,

npr 03-AUG-11

Reid [ said]: didn't spend even 10 minutes with members of Congress getting the debt ceiling raised. It was not an issue. It's only becoming an issue with the Tea Party driven republicans,

focus 31-JUL-11

Reid [-told]: didn’t spend even 10 minutes with members of Congress getting the debt ceiling raised. It was not an issue. It’s only becoming an issue with the Tea Party driven republicans,

arabtimes 31-JUL-11

Reid [-said]: The question is, 'Will today's Republicans break away from the shrill voice of the Tea Party and return to the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan,

ibtimes 29-JUL-11

Reid [-told]: Speaker Boehner’s plan is not a compromise. It was written for the Tea Party, not the American people,

time 27-JUL-11

Larry Sabato [ said]: To the Republicans, it's more important to please the Tea Party base than it is to take the chance that the general public might be turned off to their methods,

ibtimes 26-JUL-11

Israel [-asks]: Unfortunately, this is exactly the sort of partisan tantrum we're used to from House Republicans as they push our economy to the brink of disaster while pandering to their Tea Party base.

usaToday 20-JUL-11

Will [-said]: The problem is, the Tea Party movement, which doesn’t understand the fundamental paradox, which is if Washington were as easy to turn around as they seem to think it is, we wouldn’t need the Tea Party movement which we do,

news 17-JUL-11

Juan Williams [wrote:]: Whenever the press spotlights one of her stumbles at the microphone the Minnesota congresswoman gets a flood of support and money. She becomes ‘Every Woman,’ a misunderstood Tea Party mother of five facing down an elitist, arrogant, Obama-leaning press corps.

latimes 12-JUL-11

Rae [-said]: The Conservatives, following the Tea Party in the United States and elsewhere, have turned this into a 24/7 operation. And we have to do the same thing. Not because we think Canadians are desperately interested in seeing negative advertising, but because we think it's absolutely necessary for us to be able to connect with Canadians and to remind them who we are.

montrealgazette 05-JUL-11

Reid [-said]: I hope my Republican colleagues will put the economy ahead of politics. I hope they'll join us to create jobs and set aside their desire to please the Tea Party and defeat President Obama,

channelnewsasia 28-JUN-11

Scott Reed [ said]: The Tea Party was wildly successful because it was not personality driven,

reuters 26-JUN-11

Daniel Senor [ said]: Tea Party critics of America’s current military operations should look at how well served Congressional Republicans were in the 1990s by opposing intervention in the Balkans,

IHT 22-JUN-11

Rae [ asked]: Since when does his government become a branch plant of the Republican Tea Party in the United States?

theglobeandmail 16-JUN-11

Palin [-replied]: which is the Boston Tea Party ,

latimes 31-MAY-11

Johnson [-said]: Both the Tea Party Express and Mr. Bruning want to cut Medicare, cut Social Security and return to the days when insurance companies could deny health coverage to children with pre-existing conditions,

news 11-MAY-11

Reed [-said]: He speaks with some real common sense, especially to independent and (conservative) Tea Party voters,

news 19-APR-11

Barbara Lee [ said]: This bill is nothing more than a Tea Party checklist targeting programs that help the most vulnerable,

CBC 15-APR-11

Bonjean [-said]: She is trying to carve out a niche with the Tea Party,

msnbc 12-APR-11

Plouffe [-said]: >White House feared would hinder the economic recovery and idle more than 800,000 federal workers. The Senate and House are expected to approve that agreement this week, although lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have criticized it. Fiscal conservatives aligned with the Tea Party pressured House Speaker John Boehner for even deeper cuts, while liberal Democrats fear the cuts will hurt social programs for Americans dealing with the lingering effects of a recession. Later in the week, the House t

kuwaittimes 12-APR-11

Reid [-said]: now the Tea Party, among others … is trying to move this extreme social agenda that has nothing to do with the budget,

upi 09-APR-11

Harry Reid [ said]: The Tea Party’s trying to push its extreme agenda with issues that have nothing, nothing, nothing to do with funding government,

tnr 08-APR-11

Reid [-said]: We don't have the time to fight over the Tea Party's extreme social agenda,

msnbc 08-APR-11

Reid [-said]: The Tea Party is trying to push its extreme social agenda - issues that have nothing to do with funding the government,

ibtimes 07-APR-11

Reid [-said]: I'm going to do everything that I can ... but I hope the Republicans do what the country needs, not what they believe the Tea Party wants,

chinadaily 07-APR-11

Reid [ asked]: They have made a decision to shut down the government because they want to make it harder, for example, for a woman to get a cancer screening? Do they really want to shut down the government because the Tea Party [a conservative and libertarian wing of the Republican Party] does not want scientists to make sure the air we breathe is clean and pure,

voanews 07-APR-11

Reid [-said]: We don't have time to fight over the Tea Party's extreme social agenda,

upi 07-APR-11

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