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" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Normal
Oil
Attention
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" I think many agree, being on the plan till 26, good idea; preexisting conditions, they all have a cost. So you have to find a way to pay for it. But it doesn't mean that you're going to keep or change. Listen, cars have tires. You can reinvent the car, but it's still going to have tires. Those aspects are components of healthcare. "
Rick Santelli
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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. "
Rick Santelli
Day
Proud
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" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "
Rick Santelli
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Hold
President
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
End
Positive
Need
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Child
Look
" The government is promoting bad behavior. "
Rick Santelli
Bad
Government
Behavior
" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "
Rick Santelli
Believe
Only
Life
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Try
Philosophy
People
" People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders. "
Rick Santelli
Conservative
Need
Should
" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
Rick Santelli
What If
Got
Buy
" 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
" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
Rick Santelli
Around
Been
Post
" 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
Immigrant
Immigrants
Grandparents
" Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. "
Rick Santelli
Move
Markets
Reasons
" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
Rick Santelli
People
Tea
Spark
" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "
Rick Santelli
Price
Daughter
Insurance
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
I Am
Home
Work Hard
" 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
" I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on. "
Rick Santelli
Worry
Important
Matter
" 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
" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "
Rick Santelli
Gets
American
Challenging
" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
Rick Santelli
Markets
Greatest
Cube
" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
Rick Santelli
Compromise
Politics
Much
" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "
Rick Santelli
College
Media
Early
" 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
Up
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
You
Country
Doing
" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "
Rick Santelli
Young People
Young
People
" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "
Rick Santelli
Democracy
Level
Much
" This country is a republic. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Republic
" I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation. "
Rick Santelli
Never
Go
Said