As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4. — John Ensign 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
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
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. — Harlan F. Stone 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
We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. — Donald Trump 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
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
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage ,… — Karl Marx 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
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
We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual… — Victor Davis Hanson 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
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
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
There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national… — George W. Bush 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
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
“Going back in time is impossible. Turning invisible is impossible. Balancing the national debt is impossible. Blood sucking creatures that have been… — Jillian Eaton Copy Share Image
I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just… — Erik Paulsen 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
Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious… — Paul Ryan 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
“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
“These senators and representatives call themselves “leaders.” One of the primary principles of leadership is that a leader never asks or orders… — Daniel Hill 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
“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
“When I asked one of Europe’s most influential economic policy makers recently whether the euro crisis really is over, he replied: “No,… — Anonymous 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
“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image