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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. "

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" I'm very happy at CNBC. It's the passion, it's the movement - there's a lot of moving parts. And spontaneous TV and spontaneous debates... I don't know that there's anyone that enjoys their job more than I do. "

Rick Santelli

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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. "

" 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? "

" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "

" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "

" This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White 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

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" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "

" Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it. "

" 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? "

" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "

" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "

" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "

Rick Santelli

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" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "

" If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. "

" 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. "

" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "

" I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation. "

Rick Santelli

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" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "

" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "

" 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. "

" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "

" 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. "