Control Quote by Ron Estes

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

— Jim Cooper

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay…

— Chaka Fattah

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

“Even as I write these words, our ticking national debt clock tells us that we are increasing our debt by 3 billion dollars a…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

— Donald Trump

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that…

— Bobby Scott

Our ballooning national debt is already an economic and security crisis.

— Katie Britt

President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for…

— Donald Trump

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national…

— Barack Obama

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

— Anonymous

The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out…

— Jon Runyan

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the…

— Ron Johnson