A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Our ballooning national debt is already an economic and security crisis. — Katie Britt 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
We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The Missourians I hear from just don't buy the idea that the only way to tackle the national debt is to drastically… — Claire McCaskill 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
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
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He could melt glaciers with that smile. End wars. Resolve the national debt crisis.” — Kristen Proby Copy Share Image
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families… — Matt Taibbi 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
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Even as I write these words, our ticking national debt clock tells us that we are increasing our debt by 3 billion… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence,… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Politicians seldom if ever get [into public office] by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens,… — H.L. Mencken 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 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
“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
“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
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey 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
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