America Quote by Terri Sewell

The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have…

— Peter Schiff

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

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

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up…

— Bob Corker

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the…

— Peter Welch

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

— Mark Zandi

I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences…

— Kenneth Chenault

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

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money…

— Jay Carney

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people…

— Jay Carney

Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on…

— Ron Johnson

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