Santelli Quotes

#1. I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

Alasdair Gray

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

Rick Santelli

#3. I try to avoid political ties.

Rick Santelli

#4. 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

#5. Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

Rick Santelli

#6. The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

Rick Santelli

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Rick Santelli

#10. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

Jim Bunning

#11. There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

Sylvia Plath

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Jerry Gillies

#16. I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

Rick Santelli

#17. 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

#18. At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Rick Santelli

#19. S. Lewis, coined the phrase "The

Charles W. Colson

#20. The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Rick Santelli

#21. But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.

Douglas Adams

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

Rick Santelli

#23. I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

Rick Santelli

#24. The government is promoting bad behavior.

Rick Santelli

#25. 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

#26. Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Yoko Ono

#27. If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

Timothy Miller

#29. I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Ray Lewis