Comment Quote by Charlie Munger

I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure that we…

— Andy Jassy

There's also consumer debt, the credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in America. Yes, we talk about national debt, and…

— George W. Bush

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out…

— Jon Runyan

The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country…

— Nouriel Roubini

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

— Beppe Grillo

We're in a classic demand-shortfall recession. There aren't enough jobs because total spending is too low. Consumers won't lead the way because they're busy…

— Robert H. Frank

The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

— Michael Portillo

Our main concern is that demand for credit be fulfilled in ways that are actually beneficial to consumers and not harmful to them.

— Richard Cordray

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt…

— Peter Welch

“All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We do not have a debt crisis right now, but we see it coming. We know it's irrefutably happening. And the point we're trying…

— Paul Ryan

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to…

— Ben Quayle