Quotes from Rick Santelli

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

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.

The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances.

This country is a republic.

I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.

I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.

Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

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.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

I think health care is a mess. I think that, as a free market person, you can't even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs.

A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.

The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

I'm very happy at CNBC. It's the passion, it's the movement - there's a lot of moving parts. And spontaneous TV and spontaneous debates... I don't know that there's anyone that enjoys their job more than I do.

How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?

Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.

We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy.

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