American people Quote by Carol Roth

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

— Ronald Reagan

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

— Donald Trump

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

— Susana Martinez

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?

— Tucker Carlson

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about…

— Jason Chaffetz

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have…

— Marlin Stutzman

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they…

— John McCain

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered…

— Jennifer Dunn

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national…

— Barack Obama

One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves…

— Peter Thiel