Financing Quote by Anonymous

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us…

— Byron Dorgan

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

— Benjamin Franklin

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential…

— Robert Hormats

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the…

— John Spratt

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our…

— Stanley Hauerwas

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable…

— Gore Vidal

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been…

— Jim Cooper

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind…

— Arthur Henderson

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning…

— Ken Mehlman

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

— Thomas Paine