How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard.
— Rick Santelli
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.
The last place I'm ever going to live or work is D.C.
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.
People in charge of intelligence are political as well.
There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.
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.
We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.
The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.
One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.
How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?
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.
How many muni areas have actually defaulted, by the way? Just a question.
Let me see the 'Cuban missiles on the island' picture. Trump needs to see it before networks need to see it.
I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.
Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that.
I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.
Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?
Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.
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.
I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.
I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!
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.
I have a daughter for a while that didn't have insurance. She gets a different price than people who have insurance.
There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.
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.
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.
The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
The government is promoting bad behavior.
I try to avoid political ties.
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.
