Quotes About Debt

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

The United States has never prioritized or failed to pay any obligation when due during a debt limit impasse. Despite the institutional risks and the lack of clear legal authority, we assume that Treasury will attempt to prioritize payments in a last-ditch effort to avoid default.

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

American universities are so expensive. My family couldn't afford to send me, so I took out student loans and had to pay my own way.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it's to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.

In order to truly get deficit spending and federal debt under control, the Trump administration is going to have to eventually address entitlement reform. If not, Trump will not only become part of the Washington status quo on the issue, but will leave burdensome and expensive problems for future generations.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

As the property market is very steep right now I think people should invest their capital in a mix of equity and debt instruments, through reputed mutual funds and maybe some in gold and silver. Regular savings are very very important.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.