Acting Quote by Mario Monti

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

— John Layfield

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the…

— Giorgio Napolitano

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate.…

— George Friedman

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm,…

— Benito Mussolini

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

— Peter Bofinger

To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the…

— David Malpass

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of…

— Matteo Renzi

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

We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

— Mitch McConnell

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

— Anonymous

A public debt is a public curse.

— James Madison