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" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
Rick Santelli
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" Most of the mainstream coverage of most of the crisis - the economy, the road to get here, and the Tea Party - has been very much lacking. "
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" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
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" What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips. "
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" This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right. "
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" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on. "
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Matter
" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "
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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. "
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" I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. "
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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. "
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Street
Down
Like
" The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive. "
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Interaction
Many
Patterns
" 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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I Am
Home
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Change
Car
You
" When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies. "
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Central
Bankers
Those
" Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. "
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Working
Friends
" 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. "
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" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
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" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "
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" 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? "
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America
Up
Culture
" There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally. "
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Country
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Shared
" 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. "
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" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
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" We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. "
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Inside
" How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question. "
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" 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. "
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Child
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