America Quote by Jay Carney

The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have…

— Peter Schiff

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

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more…

— Michele Bachmann

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

— Terri Sewell

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

— Charles Bass

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize…

— Eliot Spitzer

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the…

— Peter Welch

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

An increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by fundamental policy reforms, substantial budget savings, and a strong enforcement mechanism to tie the…

— Jerome Powell

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay…

— Chaka Fattah

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem…

— Barack Obama

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

— Ziad K. Abdelnour