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" 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
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" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "
Rick Santelli
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Media
Early
" 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. "
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Down
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" 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. "
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End
Trade
World
" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
Rick Santelli
What If
Got
Buy
" All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future. "
Rick Santelli
Future
Better
Back
" 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 unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Behind
Politicians
" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
Rick Santelli
Around
Been
Post
" Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it. "
Rick Santelli
Before
See
Picture
" 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
" This country is a republic. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Republic
" The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive. "
Rick Santelli
Interaction
Many
Patterns
" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "
Rick Santelli
Gets
American
Challenging
" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
Rick Santelli
Clients
Well
Back
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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? "
Rick Santelli
America
Up
Culture
" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
Rick Santelli
How
About
Stop
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Behavior
Nature
History
" 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
" We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Deep
Inside
" 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
" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
Rick Santelli
Theater
Everything
" 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
" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "
Rick Santelli
Beer
Cards
House
" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "
Rick Santelli
Law
Tradition
Constitution
" If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy. "
Rick Santelli
Happy
Tea
Started