Behalf Quote by Margaret Atwood

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a…

— Will Rogers

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income…

— Warren Buffett

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If…

— Jeremy Grantham

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

— Benjamin Franklin

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

— Mitch McConnell

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No…

— Mitch Daniels

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The way to reduce the debt is by economic growth.

— Steve Mnuchin

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

— Wendell Phillips

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be…

— Ron Kind