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" People in charge of intelligence are political as well. "
Rick Santelli
Intelligence
Political
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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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" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "
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" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
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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. "
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Proud
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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