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.

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

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

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

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.

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.

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

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

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

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

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.

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.

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

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

One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time.

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

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I try to avoid political ties.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

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

The government is promoting bad behavior.

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.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

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.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

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

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.

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

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.

I have recommended cutting the tax on cell phones and TVs for every Florida family so they can save around $43 a year for spending as little as $100 a month on cell phone and TV bills combined.

People win elections based on having the right ideas, the right plans, like my seven step plan for 700,000 jobs. That's what wins elections.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Nobody would think that anybody on a terror watch list should have a gun, right?

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

If you're not the establishment candidate, they're going to attack you some ways.

In the middle of the Great Depression, George Jenkins, Jr. left his job at a grocery store and decided he would open up his own store. I am sure many people thought Mr. Jenkins was crazy, but he had a dream. Today, his chain of stores employs 127,000 Floridians and is the largest employee-owned company in the country. We know it as Publix.