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Rick Santelli

(1953) Pundit

90 quotes in 398 categories

Rick Santelli calls the republic inefficient and jokes that a king would be more effective. He argues that money in politics is terrible and would prefer a fixed, transparent amount for every candidate. He also enjoys treating the markets like a Rubik’s cube puzzle.

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Rick Santelli is a pundit.

Quick Facts About Rick Santelli

Born: January 12, 1953
Profession: Pundit

About Rick Santelli

Rick John Santelli is an American editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.

Quotes by Rick Santelli

The government is promoting bad behavior.

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I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

Happiness

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

End of the day

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

Fair

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The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.

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Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

Challenges

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This country is a republic.

Country

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I try to avoid political ties.

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The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!

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The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.

Inflation

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There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.

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We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

Country

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

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

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

Country

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

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I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the…

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Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe…

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It seems to me that any reason for people getting more active in running or taking part in politics and government I…

Government

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I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in…

Citizen

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I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as…

Day

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We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a…

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Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal…

Balance

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This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of…

America

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I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate…

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Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in…

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Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central…

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Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it…

Behavior

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We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator.…

Checks and balances

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You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than…

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When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I…

Customer

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One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market…

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Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

Customer

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

Compromise

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Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

Friends

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

Jobs

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I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.

Beer

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People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

Father

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When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

Bankers

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How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.

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