Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

John C. Calhoun

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the treasury of some of the States from the pockets of the people of the others; in reality, to make them support the governments and pay the debts of other States as well as their own?

John C. Calhoun

He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Stanley Ho

We have always said that for the projects we look for 65%-35% debt-to-equity. From an equity point of view, we are already fully funded,

Robert Reich

Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

We'll reschedule the debt to the IMF later, especially that the money has not been spent.

We wanted to have no debt when we got married except for a house payment, so we paid for the wedding as we went.

We feel great about where we are with our debt strategy,

I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.

Tracy Austin

We all need to show a debt of gratitude toward Billie.

Maya Angelou

Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.

John Deane

Politically, for him to be released with a sense of debt and/or interest relative to the president, could be momentous.

I would really like to see what they're going to do about the debt,

I would have liked to have seen more of the proceeds go to reducing their debt load.

I extend a large debt of gratitude to all those that have helped us with donations and fundraising.

What with the referendum were they truthful about? The taxes people had to pay? No. The finances? No. How much debt we had? No. How much did they get right?

What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Gold should be well-positioned if the U.S. economy slows sharply, given debt and dual-deficit strains that would likely emerge,

Alan Greenspan

helped to lower risk premiums on debt and have contributed importantly to the favorable investment environment.

There is a different propensity there to take on debt.

What is a problem is when you have no particular plan to pay off the debt.

He who feels pain when paying off debts is not fit to leverage on debts as an investment strategy

Ron Pearson

He needs to maximize his savings for his own retirement as well as his daughter's education, yet his debt is absorbing 43 percent of his monthly income.

David Graeber

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

David Graeber

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Brunello Cucinelli

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Camilo Jose Cela

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

We have a staggering debt level, and government must ensure our expenditure levels are kept within our means,

Bobby Scott

When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.