Debt Quotes

I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

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

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Mike Pence did ask this question about debt and the debt explosion on the [Donald] Trump plan is much, much bigger than anything on the [Hillary] Clinton side.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But we will get the money from Gulf states and others.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump's tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.