To have debts is to possess something.

One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made…

— Stacey Abrams

I generally encourage people to make good on debts when they have enough money to repay them. But once a delinquency has been reported…

— Suze Orman

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

— Julius Nyerere

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

— Francois Rabelais

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status…

— Paul Singer

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

— Francois Rabelais

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

— Lord Byron

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

— Thomas Jefferson

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of…

— Noam Chomsky

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the…

— Robert Walpole

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

— George Osborne

“A life for a life. All debts have to be repaid.”

— Alex London

I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were,…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

“Innocent or guilty, a Lannister pays his debts.”

— George R.R. Martin

You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing…

— Robert Reich