Quotes About Debt

I'd decided that the day I paid off all my debts, I would get married. Exactly two months later, I got hitched.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

God did not say that you should be able to borrow one hundred percent of the price of a house.

Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt.

Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects, Camille.

Most basic and dangerous of all was the Federalist creation of a huge perpetual federal debt, which, as New York governor George Clinton explained, not only would poison the morals of the people through speculation but would also "add an artificial support to the administration, and by a species of bribery enlist the monied men of the community on the side of the measures of the government. . . . Look to Great Britain.

Shelly's alchemy with other people's money and Social Security numbers went on for a very long time. Some years later, when Sami tried to get an apartment, her application was rejected because she had bad credit. There was a debt of $36,000 associated with her Social Security number. It wasn't her name on the account, however

Some men like you less the more they owe you. Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

Some men only really begin to like you when they find themselves in your debt.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

My grandfather came to Canada from Romania just before the Second World War, already in debt after buying his boat ticket on borrowed dime.

After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

I do worry that as we try to fix this long-term debt and deficit situation that we don't destroy the market incentives for biomedical research. What I fear is the government using its considerable clout to say, 'Here's the price we're setting for your medicines.'

When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.