Rick Santelli

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

“I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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