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
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
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
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not… — Ron Estes 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
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
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
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any… — James Madison 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
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
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
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W. C. Sellar Copy Share Image
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have… — Hank Johnson 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
Obama and his Democrats need to be placed on the defensive. They are the primary drivers of this spending; they are the… — David Limbaugh 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
It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
