Quotes on Debt

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Author: Louie Anderson

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

Author: Joan Arc

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

Author: Ernie Banks

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

Author: John Boehner

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Author: David Brin

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

Author: Sherrod Brown

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Author: John Buchan

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Author: Mark Caine

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

Author: Michael Castle

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Author: Ralph Emerson

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Author: Euripides

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Author: Alexander Hamilton

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Author: Daniel Hannan

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Author: Tom Harkin

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Author: Rutherford Hayes

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

Author: Benny Hinn

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

Author: Ruben Hinojosa

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Author: Herbert Hoover

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Author: Gwen Ifill

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.

Author: David Korten

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

Author: Joe Manchin III

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Author: Mitch McConnell

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Author: Barack Obama

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Author: Suze Orman

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

Author: Ron Paul

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Author: George Peabody

Wars are made to make debt.

Author: Ezra Pound

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Author: Will Rogers

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Author: Karl Rove

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

Author: Olivier Sarkozy

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Author: Robert Service

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.

Author: Percy Shelley

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

Author: George Simpson

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

Author: Ralph Sockman

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

Author: John Spratt

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

Author: David Wilkerson

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Author: E. Wilson