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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. "
Rick Santelli
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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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" We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road. "
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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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" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "
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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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" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "
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" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
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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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" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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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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" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "
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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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" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "
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People
" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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