Debt Quotes - Page 15

• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Powerful, Army, Administration

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

  Tom Allen

  Country, Important, Looks

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

  John Piper

  Jesus, Happened, Died

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• Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

  Bobby Scott

  Ice Cream, Profound, Pennies

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• In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

  George Bancroft

  Men, Knowing, History

  George Bancroft (1875). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent”, p.59

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• In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Numbers, Issues, Long

  "Rep. Van Hollen: President has acted on economic issues". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Offering, Suffering

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• every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Divorce

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

  Bell Hooks

  College, Class, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, People, Needs

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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• Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

  Patch Adams

  Sleep, Departed, Way

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Senior, Mistake, School

  "Financial Education: The Solution for the Future of Our Economy?" by Alexa Von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

  Newt Gingrich

  Years, Four, Firsts

  "Cain to Push Passage of 9-9-9 Plan if Conservative Republican Occupies White House". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

  George Eliot

  Money, Errors, Differences

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.512, 谷月社

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• The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.

  Peter Thiel

  Two, Growth, Progress

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

  Thomas Browne

  Envy, Dumb, Praise

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.152

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• Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Safety

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• 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?

  John Dos Passos

  Real, Men, Aging

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  Edmund Burke

  Spring, Shadow, Credit

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

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• ... 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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Thinking, Psychology

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• You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

  Andrew Jackson

  Practice, Feelings, Promise

  Andrew Jackson's letter to Andrew Jackson, Jr., April 14, 1835.

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• Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Giving, Principles

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.289

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

  Gary Reilly

  Broke

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