Casting Quote by Peter Welch

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

— Jacob Lew

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“Since the debt limit simply accommodates debt that has already been incurred, raising it should, in theory, be perfunctory. But politicians have found it…

— Thomas E. Mann

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

— Jim DeMint

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize…

— Eliot Spitzer

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling…

— Rand Paul

In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem…

— Barack Obama

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more…

— Michele Bachmann

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

— Sean Hannity

I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who…

— Bill Maher

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now with the…

— Victor Davis Hanson