There are other ways to motivate students than requiring them to take on debt or work long hours taking away from their… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. That's why I said… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending… — Tim Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads. — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control. — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a… — John L. Casti 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