Administration Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

“The Republican establishment is haunted by painful memories of what happened to Old Man Bush in 1992. He peaked too early and he had…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on…

— William J. Clinton

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

— James Madison

“Although you won’t find it in their party platform, the GOP’s mission is to protect and further enrich America’s plutocracy. The party’s caterwauling about…

— Mike Lofgren

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into…

— Michael Hudson

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

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.

— James Madison

Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to…

— Bernie Sanders

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

— Dr. Seuss

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military…

— David Graeber