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Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

— William J. Clinton

You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have…

— Peter Schiff

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

— John L. Casti

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and…

— Hugo Chavez

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 human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not…

— Donella Meadows

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge…

— Pope Benedict XVI

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income…

— Bill Gates

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to…

— John L. Casti

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical…

— Kenneth Clarke

For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some…

— Peter Singer

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

— Thomas Pogge