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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.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Quotes by Roy Blunt

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.

Quotes by Ross Perot

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

Quotes by Ron Paul

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.

Quotes by Ron Estes

If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.

Quotes by Ron DeSantis

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.

Quotes by Roger Altman

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Quotes by Robert W. Service

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

Quotes by Robert Manning

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.

Quotes by Rick Perry

Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

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.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Quotes by Ralph W. Sockman

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

Quotes by Raghuram Rajan

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.

Quotes by Peter Welch

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

Quotes by Peter Bofinger

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.

Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

You do not want to get your debt ratio out of whack.

Quotes by Paul Martin

Other lines argue that budget discipline is essential to long-term financial health, while low-income households still need fair access to everyday credit. See also our Debtor and Debtors pages.