Quotes from Rick Santelli

While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives, they're working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House.

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.

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

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 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.

What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.

I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.

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.

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.

The government is promoting bad behavior.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

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

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.

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.

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

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

Many other states ultimately - they might not have the same balance sheet as Wisconsin - but collective bargaining from the federal level... these are big issues, and these costs need to be put under control.

I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots... I go home on my train; I cut my own grass... I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about.

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.

I try to avoid political ties.

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.

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

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?