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The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

Politics is compromise.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

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.