Debt Quotes
Lines on borrowing, risk, and recovery.
These quotes treat debt as a serious force in both personal and national life, echoing an old warning that unchecked debt can undermine governments as surely as war. A related economic reflection appears in our Debt Ceiling quotes.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
Ultimately, we can't just keep doubling our national debt every eight years. We have got to get that under control and not spend more than we bring in.
If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.
There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.
Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.
The Fair Debt Collection Act was passed in 1977, and there were never any provisions for rules to be written under it, so it hasn't kept pace with the times.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
