Quotes About Debt

N]o nations with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.

A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

Siempre sus deudas paga el calderero: paga una vez cuando lo ha comprado, paga doble a quien le ha ayudado, paga triple a quien le ha insultado.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made." The

You're already into me for nine talents.

I've seen the hollow, empty eyes of desperate people staggering under the weight of debt and twisting with the agony of poverty. And now I could make money off of having seen that. Finally, a job I was qualified for!

This is the debt I pay Just for one riotous day, Years of regret and grief, Sorrow without relief. Pay it I will to the end — Until the grave, my friend, Gives me a true release — Gives me the clasp of peace. Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best — God! but the interest!

Slight was the thing I bought, Small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best — God! but the interest!

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

In terms of intellectual debt, more people deserve acknowledgment than we could possibly list.

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORDís time of release has been proclaimed.

You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.