Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.
Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.
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.
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.
It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.
The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.
Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.
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.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.
I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.
A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.
Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.
Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.
I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.
Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.
More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.
I absolutely appreciate the opportunity it's been. I wouldn't be here without 'Gossip Girl,' so I will always be in debt and grateful.
We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink us deeply into debt.