Debt Quotes
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The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.
Jon Runyan
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The wages of Gin is Debt.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.
Hillary Clinton
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The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.
Bill Clinton
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History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
George Gilder
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You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .
Brigham Young
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The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
Paul Krugman
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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
Seneca the Younger
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When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Ballance
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Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
Paul Ryan
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
William Shakespeare
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
Seth Godin
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It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
Harry Lloyd
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We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
Hillary Clinton
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If any people are homeless in Australia today, it is the Aboriginals, They are the only non-European descended people to whom we owe any debt. Some day, I hope, we will do justice to them.
Arthur Calwell
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We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
Rick Santelli
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Avoid likewise the accumulation of debt.
George Washington
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
Erwin W. Lutzer
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
Thomas Carlyle
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Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.
Evan Esar
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If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
Paul Ryan