Agencies Quote by Bob Holden

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

— Mike Fitzpatrick

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

— Robert Frost

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

— John Engler

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The…

— Jim Cooper

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

— Merton Miller

We can't go fully monty in Bond, Because we can't get the rating.

— Daniel Craig

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

— Meredith Whitney

Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.

— Bonnie Hammer

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

— Seth Klarman

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

— Craig Fugate

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

States are not moral agents.

— Noam Chomsky