I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take… — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. — Addison Wiggin Copy Share Image
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
On a nationwide basis, I would guess that the various churches would have to pay annually an amount at least equal to… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins 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
Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Wars are supposed to be declared by governments. Parliaments and kings are supposed to decide whether hostilities shall begin. Never, since the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen. I should like to inform you on behalf of the nation state of Guyana, that we are going to… — Pauline Melville Copy Share Image
“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the Neo-Con-Artists seized the economy and added $4 trillion of unproductive spending to… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“The Rothschilds taught the rich men of the earth to smile and be glad to permit such debts to be incurred. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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