Belief Quote by David Plouffe

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America…

— David Plouffe

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the…

— Ron Johnson

The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for…

— David Malpass

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

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

— Jacob Lew

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

— John Boehner

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We…

— Donald Trump

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

— Mark Zandi

“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it…

— Thomas E. Mann

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

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

— Terri Sewell

Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on…

— Ron Johnson