Quotes by Debt The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt. Leonard Lance usnobodydebtaccounting Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week. Matthew Walker youdebtsleeptrying There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that. Mick Mulvaney goingwilldebtway Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue. Mitch McConnell onlydebthandlecountry War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America. Murray Rothbard consequencesdebtwaramerica We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt. Michael Bennet debteconomyeducationwork The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government. Matt Salmon startdebtgovernmenttime One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear. Peter Bofinger howjustlikedebt You do not want to get your debt ratio out of whack. Paul Martin youryoudebtwant It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. Patrick Henry debtslaverylawreligion There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt. Darryl Glenn basisstudentdebtgovernment I run a campaign where we do not take on debt. Darryl Glenn campaignwhererundebt While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon. Dave Ramsey downdebthomepeople This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them. Adam Hasner stopmoredebtelection In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt. Ann Kirkpatrick downdebteffortsupport In my min,d there is arguably a greater risk of a default on the debt of a U.S. state than there is on the debt of a euro-area member. I consider it unthinkable that a euro-area country would default. Athanasios Orphanides thandebtriskcountry Our national debt poses a threat to all Americans and is particularly troublesome both for well-established businesses and for those seeking to enter into the marketplace. Alan Patricof thosebothourdebt Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes. Keith Teare yesagainstpercentdebt Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt. Keith Gessen bestbeingdebteasy No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected. Nouriel Roubini createeverythingdebtcountry«3031323334353637383940»
