Rick Santelli

Journalist

1953-01-12

Quotes by Rick Santelli

• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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 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.

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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 think is just terrific.

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• Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB.

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• I try to avoid political ties.

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• I think many agree, being on the plan till 26, good idea; preexisting conditions, they all have a cost. So you have to find a way to pay for it. But it doesn't mean that you're going to keep or change. Listen, cars have tires. You can reinvent the car, but it's still going to have tires. Those aspects are components of healthcare.

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• If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

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

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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 Democrats unhappy.

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

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• I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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