Debt Quotes

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

We need economic growth in Europe and we need to find a solution for the excessive interest rates that are making it difficult for many countries to get their own debt under control.

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this process.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

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

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

The problem is indeed that one party's debt finds its counterpart in some other party's savings. Not paying debts therefore involves annulling some other party's financial claims on the debtor.

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.

No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

If you'll have enough saved and nobody has to take on debt and you want to retire, shoot go for it.

You'll feel better when you get all that debt off your back.

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.

I just don't like people taking debt into retirement.

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.