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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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" 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

" The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "

" In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine. "

" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "

" If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. "

" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "

" This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "

" People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "

" I try to avoid political ties. "

" 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. "

" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "

" The government is promoting bad behavior. "

" The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C. "

" 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. "

" 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

Great

Remember

" 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. "

" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "

" 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

" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "

" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "