Tea Party Movement (2009)
In what was described by CNBC as a "rant" delivered from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli reinvented the term "tea party", and a national protest movement, known as the Tea Party movement, followed amid much media attention. "
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Famous quotes containing the words tea, party and/or movement:
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—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
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