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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.

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.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives, debt hawks. The conservative and Republican base is not monolithic. It has subsets that he seems to be appealing to all of them.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

It is my contention that value does not mix so well with debt.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

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.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

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.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

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

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

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

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?

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.

I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.