Country Quote by Martin Schulz

But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think…

— George Papandreou

“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”

— Stafford Beer

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.…

— George Osborne

The way to reduce the debt is by economic growth.

— Steve Mnuchin

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic…

— Jerry A. Webman

A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this…

— Austan Goolsbee

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union,…

— Angela Merkel

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt…

— Paul Krugman

Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them…

— Angela Merkel

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

This goes back to the main challenge we are facing, because Europe at the moment is not competitive. We have many imbalances and my…

— Mark Rutte

“It was only with the crisis that debt soared. Yet many Europeans in key positions - especially politicians and officials in Germany, but also…

— Paul Krugman