Authority Quote by Jerome Powell

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

— Mick Mulvaney

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes…

— Chuck Fleischmann

I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

— Randy Hultgren

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt…

— Eric Bolling

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it…

— John Sununu

I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.

— Steve Mnuchin

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times…

— Mark Zandi

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to…

— Barack Obama

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of…

— Alan Greenspan