Debt Quotes - Page 21

• We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Should Have, Pay, Salary

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

  Babatunde Fashola

  Evil, Needs, Sin

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• I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Moving, Fighting

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

  Jasper Fforde

  Confused, Thinking, Albums

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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, Terrorism, Privatization

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• The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.

  Peter Schiff

  Country, Unique, Play

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• As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.

  Tony Blankley

  Wall, Risk, Dollars

  "Washington Is Nuts" by Tony Blankley, townhall.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Principles, May

  Alexander Hamilton (1973). “Papers”

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• But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Community, Add

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.425, Executive Intelligence Review

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• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Want, Republican

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, Fire, Wife

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.189, Rodale

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• You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Minus, Margins, Security

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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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• 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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• 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

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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