Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for everything likes that. Maybe we should shut energy down for 24 hours, see how people like that. Rick Santelli Read Quote
We need to understand that in the end, if we’re going to make a positive difference in the future, we can’t have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash. Rick Santelli Read Quote
Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us. Rick Santelli Read Quote
You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It’s not the year I was born. I’m a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ Ayn Rand. Rick Santelli Read Quote
The issue is, you’re not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. Rick Santelli Read Quote
Printing money – is it really the answer? … If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won’t that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing – I like to take everything to the extreme. Rick Santelli Read Quote
Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can’t possibly foresee. Rick Santelli Read Quote
We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative’s entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative? Rick Santelli Read Quote
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 banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don’t do as good a job. Rick Santelli Read Quote