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" The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Behind
Politicians
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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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" I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. "
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Me
Great
Remember
" 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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You
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" I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs. "
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Free
" People in charge of intelligence are political as well. "
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Intelligence
Political
Well
" 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. "
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Moving
Happy
Job
" I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on. "
Rick Santelli
Worry
Important
Matter
" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "
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You
Mortgage
People
" 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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Politicians
Enough
Know
" 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
" 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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Party
Wonder
Up
" There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Wealth
Shared
" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "
Rick Santelli
Price
Daughter
Insurance
" Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control. "
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Level
Control
Same
" I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets. "
Rick Santelli
Mistake
Much
Too Much
" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
Rick Santelli
Theater
Everything
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Analysis
Tools
Tool
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
End
Done
Government
" 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
" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "
Rick Santelli
Democracy
Level
Much
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
Party
Economy
Here
" 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
" 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. "
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Job
Good
Financial
" 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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Democrats
Said
Day
" This country is a republic. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Republic
" 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? "
Rick Santelli
Plant
Start
Sun
" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
Rick Santelli
Look
Piece
Paper
" 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. "
Rick Santelli
End
Trade
World
" 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
" 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