Affect Quote by David Axelrod

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this…

— Michael Bennet

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and…

— Steve Israel

“The debt ceiling is not what causes our problems, it's the only thing that might help solve our problems.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is…

— Rick Santelli

[Young people] can't do much with [student debt] other than try to figure out how to pay it down. They can't take jobs they…

— Hillary Clinton

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

Faster economic growth helps raise the economy which raises revenues. And that helps us tackle the deficit. There's two things we've got to do…

— Paul Ryan

Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal…

— John Ensign

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…

— William J. Clinton

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

— Ron Johnson

I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification…

— Bill Foster