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" 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. "

" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "

" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. "

" Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! "

" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "

" How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question. "

" How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? "

" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "

" I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country. "

" I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. "

" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "

" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "

" I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers? "

" If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy. "

" If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance. "

" I like free markets, but I do like fair markets. "

" I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. "

" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "

" 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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