Debt Quotes

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It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country… — Timothy Hallinan
A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it… — Newton D. Baker
My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt. — Joe Kyrillos
The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads,… — Robert Kiyosaki
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. — Charles Bass
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet… — Luis de Guindos
I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge… — Jeff Landry
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. — George Bernard Shaw
We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail… — Peter Julian Eymard
Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the… — Lesslie Newbigin
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the… — Lesslie Newbigin
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been… — Barry Commoner
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones… — Michael Oppenheimer
I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on… — Lindsey Graham
I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's… — Lindsey Graham
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is… — Robert Reich
Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do… — William J. Clinton
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you… — William J. Clinton
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Debt is a bottomless sea. — Thomas Carlyle
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. — Thomas Tusser
I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for… — Ayn Rand
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity — Frank Zappa
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors… — Frank Shorter

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