Quotes from Rick Santelli

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

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.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.

The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.

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.

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

I like free markets, but I do like fair markets.

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.