Commerce Quote by Gore Vidal

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

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

— Mohsen Rezaee

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of…

— Gore Vidal

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with…

— Juan Enriquez

That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They…

— Warren Buffett

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

— Tariq Ali

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots…

— John Perkins

Regan and George W Bush put the United States in more debt than all the other presidents combined.

— Anonymous

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

— Niall Ferguson

We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

— Hillary Clinton

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

— Michael Hudson

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum