American Quote by Charles B. Rangel

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy…

— Austan Goolsbee

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

— Mick Mulvaney

I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

— Randy Hultgren

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it…

— John Sununu

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt…

— Eric Bolling

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to…

— Ronald Reagan

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes…

— Chuck Fleischmann

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times…

— Mark Zandi

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but…

— Noam Chomsky

I do not want America to default on its debt.

— Jeb Hensarling

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of…

— Alan Greenspan

If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally…

— Jerome Powell