Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage ,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
To be clear, aiming to reduce the national debt in the long term and running small surpluses when the economy is operating… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
So it’s still standing?” he managed to get out between his snickers. “I would’ve thought you two had knocked it to rubble… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Forget the National Debt Clock. We need an electronic billboard to track all the daily shootings in this country. I'm really sick… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The country was lumbering towards election day. Strike turned in early on Sunday and watched the day's gaffes, counterclaims and promises being… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know, the first-born is usually the anal worrier, but somehow my brother and I reversed roles on that. He’s chill… — George Crowder Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
I'm witnessing the problems that the federal government is passing down in terms of drones, in violation of our civil liberties, spying… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . .… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The truth is we need to build an economy going forward with all of us, when we all move forward and the… — Paul Sadler Copy Share Image
Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
“When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“My master, is the best of all husbands in all the five quarters of the globe; and his wife bears him an… — Christian Friedrich von Stockmar Copy Share Image
The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I will introduce a new set of fiscal rules which will apply to every decision taken by a Labour government. We will… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
