Quotes About Credit

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure that we raise that debt ceiling.

By the time most people file for bankruptcy, their credit is already trashed, they have a high debt-to-income ratio - a key indicator lenders look at - and they've likely defaulted on more than a few accounts.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected - and on terms that Americans had fantasized about for 45 years?

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

If I use my credit card... and they go, 'Oh my gosh, there's Lisa Frank who makes the stickers!' I go, 'Isn't that the craziest thing, that I have the same name?'

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

One thing that brings me great, great joy is reading the reviews of 'Civil War' and seeing the much deserved credit that Chris Evans is getting for his performance as Captain America.