Debt Quotes - Page 21

• College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Education, Hurt, College

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• The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book - people can take their time, you can sort of go back and reread - but in a movie you've got two hours to not only explain things like collateralized debt obligations, but you also have to make it entertaining.

  Kelly McEvers

  Book, Two, People

  "On The Money: How 'The Big Short' And Its Jerk Heroes Explain Finance". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. December 11, 2015.

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• Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Looks, Shapes, Sober

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• Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Fun, Mean

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• America has so much debt, if she were a person she'd need a co-signer to get a car loan.

  Dov Davidoff

  America, Car, Needs

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• Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need?

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid

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• Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Trying, Doe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.105, Penguin

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, World

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

  Rand Paul

  Dollars, Minutes, National Security

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.

  Rand Paul

  Secret, Together, Stronger

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

  Rand Paul

  Lines, Conservative, Stage

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• We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at least 200,000 less jobs next year than you have now. And the people who vote for that will be responsible for that decision and they will held accountable for that terrible public policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Years, Usa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

  Susan Cheever

  Sex, Vegas, Addiction

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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

  Peter Menzel

  Dollars, Half, Tough

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• The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

  Harry Reid

  Games, Work Out, President

  "Reid: Tie debt ceiling, fiscal cliff" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

  Steny Hoyer

  Cutting, Buying Things, Pay

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• Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a car with interest rates half of that being paid for student loans? We must make higher education affordable for all. We must substantially lower interest rates on student loans. This must be a national priority.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Home, Car

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• If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

  Dr. Seuss

  Dollars, Genocide, Economy

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• When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

  Megyn Kelly

  School, Law, Pay

  "Megyn Kelly reacts to Sandra Fluke". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. March 08, 2012.

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• Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Duty, Obligation

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.

  George Washington

  Use, Credit, Delay

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• My debt to feminism is simply incalculable. Feminism allowed me to see past a 'reality' that I had once taken as a given. It helped me to pay attention to countless voices, my own included, that I had been taught 'don't count.' Feminism allows me to maintain hope.

  Harriet Lerner

  Taken, Past, Reality

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

  Hugh Hendry

  Doe, Wells, Contention

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• I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Views, Yesterday

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