Debt Quotes

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.