Quotes from Rick Santelli

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.

This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right.

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

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.

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

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.

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 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.

Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

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.

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.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

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.

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.

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

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

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?

Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

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.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.