You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. Rick Santelli More Quotes by Rick Santelli More Quotes From Rick Santelli The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard Rick Santelli government america people The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people. Rick Santelli outlook jobs people I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult. Rick Santelli legislation levels thinking 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 greatness hands america One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. Rick Santelli winner loser clients 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 oil energy attention I'm pretty darn happy with my day job. Rick Santelli day-jobs jobs I try to avoid political ties. Rick Santelli political ties trying 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 mountain going-away government 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 government different attitude I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy. Rick Santelli gold enemy thinking Challenging leaders is as American as it gets. Rick Santelli leader challenges At the end of the day, the markets are my passion. Rick Santelli the-end-of-the-day passion ends I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. Rick Santelli fire worry believe 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 country father people I think that there's been a lot of people in Congress that didn't know all the ins and outs of the Constitution. I think we have a whole roomful of people that have record legislation in terms of quantity of pages that didn't read it. Rick Santelli records people thinking 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. Rick Santelli great behavior nature history 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? Rick Santelli camera police technology world 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. Rick Santelli better bad think children The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles. Rick Santelli cube greatest love world
