A biography for Rick Santellihasn’t been written yet.
“There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up!”
“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.”
“Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.”
“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?”
“When Target gets hacked, I don't hear people saying, 'Hey, was it Kohl's? Was it Wal-Mart?' It doesn't matter. There was a hack; you deal with it.”
“How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.”
“When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.”
“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.”
“Believe me. When you're talking about trust in government, you're preaching to the choir, whether it's on the financial side, the central banking side: we see areas where the government does good jobs; we see areas where they don't do as good a job.”
“There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.”
“This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.”
“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?”
“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.”
“I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.”
“I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.”
“I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.”
“I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.”