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" The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C. "
Rick Santelli
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" Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it. "
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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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" People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. "
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" No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. "
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" When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis. "
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" We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. "
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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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Paper
" 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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" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
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" The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. "
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Young
People
" 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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Good
Business
" 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. "
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Better
Back
" People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders. "
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Conservative
Need
Should
" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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Clients
Well
Back
" You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand. "
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Wish
Year
" 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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End
Positive
Need
" I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country. "
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Immigrant
Immigrants
Grandparents
" 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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Hate
Think
Apple
" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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Stop
People
Need
" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "
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Mortgage
People
" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "
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Cards
Hold
President
" 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? "
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Plant
Start
Sun
" 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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" We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances. "
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Done
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" While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House. "
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" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "
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Day Job
Job
" 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? "
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" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
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Greatest
Cube