Debt Quotes

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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a… — Neil Steinberg
The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment… — Linda McQuaig
The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this… — Matt Kibbe
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people. — Calvin Coolidge
In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because… — John Kenneth Galbraith
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation. — Herbert Hoover
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406… — Bill Press
Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso
The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the… — John C. Malone
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. — Dan Benishek
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private… — William Vickrey
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one… — Thomas A. Edison
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts. — Henry Ford
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. — Thomas Jefferson
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt. — Robert Kiyosaki
Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run,… — Robert Kiyosaki
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side. — Felix Dennis
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due… — Unknown Author
The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit. — John Boehner
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my… — Martin Luther
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God,… — Martin Luther
The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed. — Paul LePage
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera

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