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" This country is a republic. "
Rick Santelli
Country
Republic
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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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" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
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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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" We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. "
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" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "
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" 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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" 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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" The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. "
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Cube
" 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. "
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" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "
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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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" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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Well
Back
" 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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Behavior
Children
" 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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" A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome. "
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Overcome
Team
" People in charge of intelligence are political as well. "
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Political
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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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Tradition
Constitution
" 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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" If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy. "
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" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "
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" The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. "
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" The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C. "
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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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" 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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