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And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

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.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.