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The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

The debt settlement company will direct you to stop paying your creditor and instead send the money directly to them each month. The company's goal is to demonstrate to your creditor that you don't have the money to pay up - that's your leverage. After a few months, the company will typically go to the creditor and say, "I'm holding X dollars on behalf of your customer. He doesn't have the money to pay you, so you should take this amount as a settlement or you'll end up with nothing." If the creditor wants to get paid badly enough, it will take the money.

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

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

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

The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an increase of capital lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burthens the greater the blessings of the community.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.