Calamity Quote by John Podhoretz

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

— Mick Mulvaney

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're…

— Eric Bolling

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

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy…

— Austan Goolsbee

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

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

I do not want America to default on its debt.

— Jeb Hensarling

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

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

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would…

— Charles B. Rangel

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

Both parties recognize the fundamental danger the country's debt poses to our nation's future, but President Obama's policies have not reflected that reality. By…

— Kim Reynolds