Rick Santelli Quotes

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

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Around

• I try to avoid political ties.

  Rick Santelli

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  Tags in Political, Try, Avoid

• I’m pretty darn happy with my day job.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Day, Happy

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

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  Tags in Back, Winner, Losers

• Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

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  Tags in American, Leaders

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

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  Tags in End, Passion

• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Over

• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Energy, Times

• 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?

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in America

  Tags in Need, Energy

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

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Unique, Behind

• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Government, Away

• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Someone, Different

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

  Rick Santelli

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  Tags in Need, Stop, Known

• The government is promoting bad behavior.

  Rick Santelli

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  Tags in Government, Behaviour

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

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Young

• 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.

  Rick Santelli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Spending

Rick Santelli (16)

Birth:	12th January, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commentator, Editor

About

Rick Santelli is an American on-air 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. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for futures-related products.

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