Quotes About Debt

When we leave our kids with more student debt than necessary, we've failed them.

The game gave me so much, I am in debt forever.

I was at a point in my career where I longed for a bigger stage, a brighter light, and I'm very grateful to 'Dancing With the Stars' for allowing me to become part of that incredible production and incredibly talented cast. I am forever in debt to them for that opportunity.

There's an argument that private debt, in some way, is creating indentured servants in our country. But public debt does not do that. In fact, public debt does the exact opposite - it relieves private debt.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old.

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

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

If we reach the debt ceiling, we don't have to default. Getting to that point just won't allow us to reach new debt.

I do not want America to default on its debt.

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Preparing America's student loan crippled grads to enter a hopeless and crowded job market is no easy task, which is why we should show more love to our nation's professors.

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.