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" Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB. "
Rick Santelli
Party
Wonder
Up
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Happy
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" Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don't do as good a job. "
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" I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers? "
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" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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Well
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" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "
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" This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it. "
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Protect
" When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis. "
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Tools
Tool
" You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand. "
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Know
Wish
Year
" The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Behind
Politicians
" We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances. "
Rick Santelli
End
Done
Government
" It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are. "
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Try
Philosophy
People
" A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome. "
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Him
Overcome
Team
" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "
Rick Santelli
Beer
Cards
House
" I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. "
Rick Santelli
Me
Great
Remember
" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
Rick Santelli
Look
Piece
Paper
" Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it. "
Rick Santelli
Before
See
Picture
" Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not? "
Rick Santelli
Plant
Start
Sun
" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "
Rick Santelli
You
Mortgage
People
" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "
Rick Santelli
Price
Daughter
Insurance
" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
Rick Santelli
Theater
Everything
" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "
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Young
People
" If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Urgency
Sense
" All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future. "
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Better
Back
" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "
Rick Santelli
Pretty
Day Job
Job
" I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation. "
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Go
Said
" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "
Rick Santelli
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Markets
Reasons
" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
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Cube
" We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. "
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Enough
Know
" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "
Rick Santelli
Law
Tradition
Constitution
" Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us. "
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Think
Apple