Debt Quote by Frederick Lenz

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

— Ronald Reagan

As you know, the United States has been a net debtor to the world each year since 1976, I believe. We've put a huge…

— Porter Stansberry

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not…

— Claire McCaskill

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

These debt obligations will simply erode America's standard of living in the future. Money spent to service the debt is money that we don't…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If…

— Jeremy Grantham

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts…

— Norbert Wiener

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not…

— Donella Meadows

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We…

— Michael Bennett

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