Debt Quotes - page 5

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. (Artur Davis)
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. View quote
Bill Gross
Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt. View quote
Bill Shuster
Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have. View quote
Bobby Scott
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. View quote
Chaka Fattah
I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt. View quote
Chuck Connors
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. View quote
Conrad Veidt
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it. View quote
David Axelrod
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. View quote
David Korten
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it. View quote
David Malpass
Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances. (David Wilkerson)
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. View quote
Dan Benishek
The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. View quote
Daniel Keys Moran
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. View quote
Evangelos Venizelos
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first. View quote
Fujio Mitarai
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. View quote
Frances O'Grady
The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. View quote
Frank Shorter
I invested all my money in debt. View quote
Hamish Linklater
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. View quote
Ike Skelton
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. View quote
James Lankford
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. (Jay Carney)
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. View quote
Jim DeMint
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. View quote
Jim Gerlach
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security. View quote
Jim Ramstad
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. View quote
John H. Sununu