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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

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" Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. "

" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "

" We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "

" I try to avoid political ties. "

" 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? "

" The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. "

" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "

" 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. "

" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "

" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "

" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "

" It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I think is just terrific. "

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

" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "

" I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation. "

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