I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our ballooning national debt is already an economic and security crisis. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. — Addison Wiggin Copy Share Image
I keep telling them, if they added a 2% stupidity tax, the national debt wud be paid off in a matter of weeks :) — Don Raj Copy Share Image
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
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
“Going back in time is impossible. Turning invisible is impossible. Balancing the national debt is impossible. Blood sucking creatures that have been… — Jillian Eaton Copy Share Image
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious… — Paul Ryan 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
“The Rothschilds taught the rich men of the earth to smile and be glad to permit such debts to be incurred. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the Neo-Con-Artists seized the economy and added $4 trillion of unproductive spending to… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Politicians seldom if ever get [into public office] by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan 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
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