99 Quotes by Rick Santelli

The government is promoting bad behavior.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?