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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. "
Rick Santelli
You
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" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "
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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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" I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on. "
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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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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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" I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. "
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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 try to avoid political ties. "
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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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" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
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" Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "
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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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" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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" 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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" It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific. "
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" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "
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" 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? "
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" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
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" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "
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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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