Best 772 quotes in «debt quotes» category

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis.

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

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

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

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

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

The [Barack] Obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. He's doubled it in a course of almost eight years, seven-and-a-half years, to be semi- exact.

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

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.

The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.

The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.

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 debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

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

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

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