Beggar Quote by Ben Stein

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

— Christopher Isherwood

One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the…

— Sarah Palin

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots…

— John Perkins

We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against…

— Ronald Reagan

We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

— Kenneth Rogoff

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we…

— Mitt Romney

I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from…

— Kendrick Meek

That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy…

— Warren Buffett

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural…

— Jane Smiley

Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond…

— Howard Warren Buffett

We are stretching our nation's finances and creditworthiness so thin that we may find ourselves unable to afford to defend our interests around the…

— Scott Bessent

We pay billions - hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are.

— Donald Trump