Quotes About Debt

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

When you sleepI will creepInto your thoughtsLike a bad debtThat you can't payTake the easy wayand give in!

If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.