A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. — George Washington Copy Share Image
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take… — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going,… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The point is that Hillary Clinton is running on all these ideas. She's gonna do this and she gonna do that. She's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“When I asked one of Europe’s most influential economic policy makers recently whether the euro crisis really is over, he replied: “No,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wars are supposed to be declared by governments. Parliaments and kings are supposed to decide whether hostilities shall begin. Never, since the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Second, America is drowning in debt. While China is the world’s largest creditor nation, America is the world’s largest debtor nation. At… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to… — Pauline Melville Copy Share Image
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
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![“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under the rubric of ‘accumulation by dispossession’. By this I mean the continuation and proliferation of accumulation practices which Marx had…” quote by David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png)
