I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I… — Mike Turner Copy Share Image
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
“The debt ceiling is not what causes our problems, it's the only thing that might help solve our problems.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills. — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
