“The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that…. The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.”

— Maxine Waters

Morning Joe (31 March 2010)

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U.S. Representative from California 1938

Bernard Bailyn book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118

“We've done great with the evangelicals. The evangelicals have been amazing. The Tea Party has been amazing and we're doing really well.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)

“Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder”

Matt Fraction (1975) American comic book writer

Source: Thor: Ages of Thunder

“To stroll on wharves, and in alleys and in streets and in the houses, waiting-rooms, even saloons, that is not a pleasant pastime unless for an artist. As such, one would rather be in the dirtiest place where there is something to draw, than at a tea party with charming ladies. Unless one wants to draw ladies, then a tea party is all right even for an artist.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in Spring 1882; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 34 (letter 190)
1880s, 1882

“It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Commenting on American Football, in interview with Howard Cosell on ABC Television (December 1974)

“But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind."

Adrian”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party.”

Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) British writer

The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.
Also used as a tagline for the 1960 film adaptation.
Criticism

“Both the Republican and Tea Party nominees are listed side by side on the Nevada ballot and, ironically, the difference in the race could be the handful of points secured by the Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian, at the expense of Republican Sharron Angle.”

Scott Ashjian (1963) American businessman

David Paleologos — reported in [Bruce, Drake, http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/13/scott-ashjians-tea-party-candidacy-still-a-factor-in-nevada-sen/, Scott Ashjian's Tea Party Candidacy Still a Factor in Nevada Senate Contest, Politics Daily, AOL News, October 13, 2010, 2010-10-14]
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“Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

On Mark Halperin’s inclusion of a lengthy quote by convicted murderer Jack Henry Abbott in his One Hundred Years of Homosexuality.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf

“[M]any Tea Party folks are going to find me, I believe, to be the ideal candidate.”

Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician

Town hall event in Charleston, South Carolina, December 17, 2011, quoted in [2011-12-17, Haake, Garrett, Weinberg, Ali, Romney says he could be Tea Party's 'Ideal Candidate', msnbc.com, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/17/9519302-romney-says-he-could-be-tea-partys-ideal-candidate?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter, 2011-12-18]
2011

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