Debt Quotes - Page 27

• Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

  Billie Jean King

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Slave

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• People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

  Doug Casey

  Government, People, Taught

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• Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Bless, National Debt

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• I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Broken Promises, Breaking Promises

  "Massive government debt becoming key issue in 2012 race". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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• At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, World, Contracts

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'

  Frank J. Fleming

  Congratulations, War, Exactly Is

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• Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

  Edmund Burke

  Static, Equity

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• In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

  Laura Poitras

  Gratitude, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.

  Oliver DeMille

  Running, Frustration, Frustrated

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.

  Paul Achleitner

  Important, World, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Important, Would Be, Reason

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

  David Malpass

  Winning, Government, Covered Up

  "And the Crisis Winner Is? Government". "The Wall Street Journal", December 16, 2011.

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• Toonami was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

  Steven Blum

  Gratitude, Art, Fans

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• Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.

  Loral Langemeier

  Nice, Men, Fishing

  Loral Langemeier (2013). “The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating Cash with Wealth Cycle Investing”, p.228, McGraw Hill Professional

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• No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

  Jean Kwok

  People, Giving, Doe

  Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

  Duncan Bannatyne

  Entrepreneur

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• I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

  Barack Obama

  War, Cutting, Cake

  "Remarks at an Obama Victory Fund 2012 Fundraiser in Baltimore, Maryland". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 12, 2012.

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• Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Baby, Jobs, Government

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• A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Men, Recognise

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• Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
  an image of the world in which men can again believe.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Believe, Men, World

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• We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Ukraine, Needs, Want

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• Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Hands, Color

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• 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.

  Carol Roth

  Past, People, Dollars

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