Debtors Quote by Niall Ferguson

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with…

— Juan Enriquez

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire

— Toni Braxton

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their…

— Mickey Rourke

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing…

— John Perkins

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots…

— John Perkins

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very…

— Sienna Miller

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has…

— Stephen L. Richards

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“he warned that progressive accumulation of debt “is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive anything more…

— Ron Chernow

How is the Empire?

— King George V

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control…

— Susan George