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
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
“So it's still standing? I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night?… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm… — Frank Zappa 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
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great… — William Cobbett 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
I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton 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
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
When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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
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
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign… — Andrew Jackson 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
“Second, America is drowning in debt. While China is the world’s largest creditor nation, America is the world’s largest debtor nation. At… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention… — Peter Welch 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
Our ballooning national debt is already an economic and security crisis. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image