People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it. — Rick Santelli Father Copy Share Image
When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies. — Rick Santelli Bankers Copy Share Image
The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. — Rick Santelli Jobs Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. — Rick Santelli Beer Copy Share Image
Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely. — Rick Santelli Friends Copy Share Image
If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. — Rick Santelli Country Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee. — Rick Santelli Customer Copy Share Image
If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy. — Rick Santelli Being Copy Share Image
Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America! — Rick Santelli America Copy Share Image
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you… — Rick Santelli Business Copy Share Image
I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around,… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law. — Rick Santelli Constitution Copy Share Image
It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have… — Rick Santelli Americans Copy Share Image
The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you… — Rick Santelli America Copy Share Image
When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I… — Rick Santelli Customer Copy Share Image
One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home… — Rick Santelli Fitness Copy Share Image
We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's… — Rick Santelli Birth Copy Share Image
Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it… — Rick Santelli Behavior Copy Share Image
You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. — Rick Santelli Compromise Copy Share Image
The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. — Rick Santelli Inflation Copy Share Image
We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. — Rick Santelli Country Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally. — Rick Santelli Country Copy Share Image
