Debt Quotes

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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation,… — Mitch Daniels
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time… — Mitch Daniels
This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own… — Artur Davis
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. — Jim DeMint
I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. — Jim DeMint
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. — Charles Dickens
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making… — Roger Ebert
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Science does not know its debt to imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. — Euripides
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal… — Carly Fiorina
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in… — Carly Fiorina
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. — Daniel Hannan
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the… — Mark Haddon
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. — Alexander Hamilton
As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it. — Naomie Harris
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. — Doc Hastings
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of… — Rutherford B. Hayes
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. — George Herbert
The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss… — Marilu Henner
I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt. — Francois Hollande
I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the… — Francois Hollande

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