Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Santelli
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Rick Santelli.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.
Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.
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.
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.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.
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'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.
The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.
Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!
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.
The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.
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.
The government is promoting bad behavior.
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 being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.
The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!
One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.
I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.
Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control.
I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.
No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.
We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.
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.
People in charge of intelligence are political as well.
At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.
I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.
This country is a republic.
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.
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.
How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?
The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.
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?
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.
Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.
How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.
I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.
The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.
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 the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.
A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.
I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.
The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.
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.
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.
How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.
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.
I try to avoid political ties.
This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.
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.
There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.
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.
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.
People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.
I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
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.
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.
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.
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