Debt Quotes

None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

You might at least believe that I know honor- honor and debt.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

I have very little debt to anybody. I don't need debt.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

Our country is losing so much in terms of energy, in terms of paying off our debt.

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

When you look at our trade deals that are so bad. Our debt has doubled in seven and a half years to almost $20 trillion, under [Barack] Obama.

The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

America has so much debt, if she were a person she'd need a co-signer to get a car loan.

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.