Rick Santelli Quotes & Sayings

“I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“The government is promoting bad behavior.”

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

“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.”

“Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.”