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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. "
Rick Santelli
Know
Health
Free
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" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "
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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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" 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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" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "
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" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "
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Government
" 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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Wonder
Up
" When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies. "
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Bankers
Those
" When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. "
Rick Santelli
Attitude
Wilderness
Government
" 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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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
" People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders. "
Rick Santelli
Conservative
Need
Should
" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
Rick Santelli
Compromise
Politics
Much
" One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time. "
Rick Santelli
Street
Time
Legend
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Analysis
Tools
Tool
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Road
Good
Business
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Hate
Think
Apple
" Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe we should shut energy down for 24 hours, see how people like that. "
Rick Santelli
Street
Down
Like
" Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. "
Rick Santelli
You
Working
Friends
" The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. "
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You
Going
Inflation
" 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. "
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Know
Wish
Year
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Job
Good
Financial
" The government is promoting bad behavior. "
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Bad
Government
Behavior
" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "
Rick Santelli
Democracy
Level
Much
" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
Rick Santelli
Look
Piece
Paper
" 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
" 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? "
Rick Santelli
Police
Camera
World
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Day
Proud
Work
" 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