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

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

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.

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

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.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

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

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I try to avoid political ties.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.