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“I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.”
“The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.”
“Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe we should shut energy down for 24 hours, see how people like that.”
“The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.”
“People in charge of intelligence are political as well.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.”
“I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.”
“The government is promoting bad behavior.”
“The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.”
“If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.”
“How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?”
“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.”
“A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.”
“There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.”
“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?”