Quotes About Debt

That's not the same as, or nearly as bad as, failing to raise the debt ceiling and defaulting on government debt.)

The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Lying rides upon debts back.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Remember that credit is money.

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says;

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing, as Poor Richard says; and indeed so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again.

Think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.

Rather go to bed supperless, than in debt.

Creditors are a kind of people that have the sharpest eyes and ears, as well as the best memories of any in the world.

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Both parties recognize the fundamental danger the country's debt poses to our nation's future, but President Obama's policies have not reflected that reality. By the end of his first term, his administration will have nearly doubled our public debt.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.

I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.