Debt Quote by Ronald Reagan

Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more…

— Ron Estes

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

— Donald Trump

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

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

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

— Mike Pence

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country…

— Debbie Stabenow

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

— Katie Britt

If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy…

— Austan Goolsbee

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

People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time…

— Michael Hudson

And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to…

— Ben Quayle

You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.

— Paul Ryan