Bankruptcy Quotes - Page 2

• What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, Community, Sticks

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• As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.

  Arlen Specter

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

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• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  Dan Bartlett

  Thinking, May, Als

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• The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  America, United States, Exhibitions

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• Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools

  William Bennett

  Education, School, Years

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• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Retirement, Powerful

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• Restrict bankruptcy rules.

  Jerry Weller

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• I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

  John C. Danforth

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Borders, Responsible

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  Ed Koch

  Cities, Proud, Detroit

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• They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

  Chris Christie

  Health, Years, Reform

  Chris Christie's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

  Brian Sandoval

  Jobs, Government, Unemployment

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• These are stupid people that say, ‘Oh didn’t Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn’t he go bankrupt?’ I didn’t go bankrupt.

  Donald Trump

  Stupid, People, Trump

  "Donald Trump, Statesman of the Year?" by Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Addiction, Crime

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• When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention. We encourage reinvention. That's what this country has that Europe does not. It's not just a crisis; it's an opportunity.

  Michael Lewis

  Country, Opportunity, Europe

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Debt, Terrorism

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• The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

  Josiah Warren

  Luxury, Empires, Individual

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• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Intellectual, Opponents

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

  Tim Holden

  Protection, Chapters, Made

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• This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

  Steve Bartlett

  People, Information, Results

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• There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

  Mort Sahl

  Might, Moral, Danger

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2011

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• History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Happy Life, Government, Political

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• You fall a bit behind on a credit card bill, your interest rate soars, your minimum payment rises, and you start falling more and more behind every month. You don't see an end. But you don't want to file bankruptcy either. What you can do - and should do - is negotiate.

  Jean Chatzky

  Fall, Cards, Credit

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Failing

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.286, North Point Press

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