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title: "10 Fiscal Crisis Quotes by 10 authors"
description: "Browse 10 Fiscal Crisis quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Fiscal Crisis sayings and thoughts."
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> [To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/to-the-extent-that-we-ve-got-a-fiscal-crisis-right-now-part-of-it-is/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-klarman/there-is-an-old-saying-how-did-you-go-bankrupt-and-the-answer-is/)

[Seth Klarman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-klarman/)

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> [The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-flake/the-country-is-facing-a-fiscal-crisis-and-the-united-states-senate-is/)

[Jeff Flake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-flake/)

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> [Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ryan/our-debt-is-out-of-control-what-was-a-fiscal-challenge-is-now-a/)

[Paul Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ryan/)

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> [Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kyrsten-sinema/arizona-is-in-the-midst-of-a-fiscal-crisis-we-ve-cut-school-funding/)

[Kyrsten Sinema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kyrsten-sinema/)

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> [The fiscal crisis faced by the states especially in the light of the pandemic could lead to serious problems between the Centre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amarinder-singh/the-fiscal-crisis-faced-by-the-states-especially-in-the-light-of-the/)

[Amarinder Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amarinder-singh/)

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> [I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/i-ve-said-for-thirty-years-that-capitalism-is-an-exhausted-system-but/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-richardson/we-cannot-have-a-full-economic-recovery-we-cannot-ensure-the-security/)

[Bill Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-richardson/)

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> [Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-mailer/part-of-the-oncoming-demise-of-new-york-during-its-terrible-fiscal/)

[Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-mailer/)

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> [“The management of the New York fiscal crisis pioneered the way for neoliberal practices both domestically under Reagan and internationally through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-management-of-the-new-york-fiscal-crisis-pioneered-the-way-for/)

[David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/)

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