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" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "
Rick Santelli
Behavior
Want
Government
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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
" I try to avoid political ties. "
Rick Santelli
Avoid
Political
Ties
" I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets. "
Rick Santelli
Mistake
Much
Too Much
" I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home on my train; I cut my own grass... I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about. "
Rick Santelli
I Am
Home
Work Hard
" We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative? "
Rick Santelli
Technology
Moment
You
" 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 so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
Rick Santelli
Compromise
Politics
Much
" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
Rick Santelli
Around
Been
Post
" 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
Moving
Happy
Job
" There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Wealth
Shared
" While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House. "
Rick Santelli
Party
Working
Tea
" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "
Rick Santelli
Pretty
Day Job
Job
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Know
Wish
Year
" I think many agree, being on the plan till 26, good idea; preexisting conditions, they all have a cost. So you have to find a way to pay for it. But it doesn't mean that you're going to keep or change. Listen, cars have tires. You can reinvent the car, but it's still going to have tires. Those aspects are components of healthcare. "
Rick Santelli
Change
Car
You
" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "
Rick Santelli
Democracy
Level
Much
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Future
Better
Back
" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
Rick Santelli
What If
Got
Buy
" When Target gets hacked, I don't hear people saying, 'Hey, was it Kohl's? Was it Wal-Mart?' It doesn't matter. There was a hack; you deal with it. "
Rick Santelli
People
You
Target
" 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
" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "
Rick Santelli
Gets
American
Challenging
" I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. "
Rick Santelli
You
Believe
Worry
" I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy. "
Rick Santelli
Democrats
Said
Day
" Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Child
Look
" 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
" This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right. "
Rick Santelli
Dissent
America
Voice
" 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
" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
Rick Santelli
People
Tea
Spark
" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "
Rick Santelli
Move
Markets
Reasons
" I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs. "
Rick Santelli
Know
Health
Free
" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
Rick Santelli
Theater
Everything