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" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
Rick Santelli
Compromise
Politics
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "
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" The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. "
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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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" 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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" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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" Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. "
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" When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. "
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" I like free markets, but I do like fair markets. "
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Markets
Like
" There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally. "
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Wealth
Shared
" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "
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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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You
" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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Need
" 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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" 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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America
Voice
" 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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Up
" People in charge of intelligence are political as well. "
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Political
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" Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that. "
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Last
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