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" I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country. "
Rick Santelli
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Immigrants
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" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
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" The government is promoting bad behavior. "
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" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "
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" If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper. "
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" We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. "
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" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
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" Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair. "
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" If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. "
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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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" 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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" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
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" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "
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" Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK? "
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" Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that. "
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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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" Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. "
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" I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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