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Quotes About Debt

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.
~ Gregory Meeks
When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.
~ Elizabeth Warren
The ECB puts out money that is meant to help our banks, but they do not use it to finance our businesses, but they give it to them to buy back their debt, to help French and German banks.
~ Beppe Grillo
Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.
~ Nina Easton
When I get to Washington, the people of Florida are going to know I'm not going to spend my first year having fundraisers to pay off a campaign debt.
~ Jeff Greene
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
~ Ralph Norman
As president I will push for national student loan forgiveness.
~ Wayne Messam
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
~ James Madison
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
~ David Hartman
We went to a conference to learn how to get out of debt and we did it and it is really freeing.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
America's fiscal future is frightening.
~ Kevin Brady
You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.
~ Sharan Burrow
Boaderland: Where women could be given away by their husbands to pay debts, and young, rowdy gallants from Wonderland, fresh from the rigors of formal education, came to indulge themselvs in roving pleasure tents; where maps were useless because the nation consisted wholly of nomadic camps, settlements, towns and cities, and a visitor might find the country's capital, Boarderton, situated in the cool sgadows of the Glyph Cliffs one day but spread out along Fortune Bay the next.
~ Frank Beddor
There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.
~ Frank McCourt
A loyal and loving son, Gregor feels obligated to pay off his parents' debt. Simply quitting would betray that loyalty.
~ Franz Kafka
It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.
~ Charles Duhigg
The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.
~ Harry Reid
If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
~ Suze Orman
I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
~ Cameron Mackintosh
You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.
~ Dave Ramsey
In Texas money goes further, with one of the lowest costs of living, one of the lightest tax burdens as a percent of income, and one of the lowest debt-per-capita ratios.
~ Mark McKinnon
Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.
~ Cori Bush
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.
~ Romeo LeBlanc