Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Is a wind farm a field full of talking politicians? If so, I wonder what they grow? Probably the national debt.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I know, the first-born is usually the anal worrier, but somehow my brother and I reversed roles on that. He’s chill… — George Crowder Copy Share Image
What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Could thorough chewing lower the national debt? If saliva is full of bacteria, why do animals lick their wounds? Why don’t suicide… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an… — Phil Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Forget the National Debt Clock. We need an electronic billboard to track all the daily shootings in this country. I'm really sick… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We have to remember, lefts are the people who created unsustainable national debt, unsustainable health insurance, health care, unsustainable college tuition and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“My master, is the best of all husbands in all the five quarters of the globe; and his wife bears him an… — Christian Friedrich von Stockmar Copy Share Image
The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I will introduce a new set of fiscal rules which will apply to every decision taken by a Labour government. We will… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The truth is we need to build an economy going forward with all of us, when we all move forward and the… — Paul Sadler Copy Share Image
The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
