Words matter. These are the best Rick Santelli Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it’s a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There’s no lurching; there’s no bumps. That’s the cornerstone of checks and balances.
How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It’s a moral hazard.
I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.
I’m pretty darn happy with my day job.
I have a daughter for a while that didn’t have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.
If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what’s written on my tombstone, I’ll be very happy.
Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.
I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.
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.
We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.
The markets are the world’s greatest Rubik’s cube. And I love solving puzzles.
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.
There’s not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.
When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have… are those policies.
Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.
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.
No, traditions and norms aren’t rules in the Constitution. There’s a difference between a tradition and a law.
Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early ’20s. It didn’t happen overnight. I’ve used the analogy, it’s a lot like soybeans: you plant ’em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?
How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.
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.
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
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.
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.
We need to understand that in the end, if we’re going to make a positive difference in the future, we can’t have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.
You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It’s not the year I was born. I’m a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ Ayn Rand.
This country is a republic.
The unique thing about our country is that we don’t get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.
I believe there’s only one regulation in life that works: failure.
The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn’t very good. And it’s really about young people.
I try to avoid political ties.
Let me see the ‘Cuban missiles on the island’ picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.
It’s a philosophy that – ‘We, the People’ – it’s about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.
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.
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
People ask me if I’m the father of the Tea Party movement… I was the spark… that started it.
How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage?
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.
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.
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.
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.
I think hacking’s important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.
Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.
People in charge of intelligence are political as well.
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.
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.
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?
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?
The issue is, you’re not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.
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.
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.
A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.
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?
