America Quote by Jerzy Kosinski

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

— Margaret Atwood

Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you…

— Margaret Atwood

The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in…

— Jared Polis

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt,…

— Anonymous

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West…

— Sarah Lacy

When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with…

— Anton Chekhov

We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that…

— Karen Mills

[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.

— George W. Bush

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to…

— Michael Moore

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

— Anthea Turner

A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

— Evan Esar

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able…

— David Korten