Been Quote by Ken Mehlman

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning…

— Ken Mehlman

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us…

— Byron Dorgan

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough…

— Abraham Flexner

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

— Rand Paul

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens...

— Charles Tilly

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

— Anonymous

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited a foreign…

— Donald Trump

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

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

— Plato

“The war has ended with every one owing every one else immense sums of money. Germany owes a large sum to the Allies, the…

— John Maynard Keynes