Debt Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• [Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Government, Promise, Reform

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• The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay.

  Bill Maher

  Wall, Government, Ebay

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• Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

  Douglas Wilson

  Grace, Way, Sin

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• We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

  John McCain

  Tired, Cutting, People

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• They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Priorities, Challenges

  "Tax cuts likely to be an issue in 2000 elections" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. July 28, 1999.

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• I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Able

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• Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

  John McCain

  Children, Government, Order

  "McCain's two swipes at Bush" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2006.

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• ...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Income, Gone

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• While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli`s being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody who`s milking profits really off of patients who are poor in order to finance what at least what appears to be a lot of debt being built up in other businesses.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Order, Patient, Finance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.

  Rod Serling

  Cutting, Trying, Pieces

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Home, Average

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Cutting

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to almost five percent. But the mortgage crisis and the burgeoning credit card crisis are causing Americans to become wary of irresponsible debt.

  Denis Hayes

  Zero, Quality, Cards

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Responsible Government, Eight, Years

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.

  Michelle Singletary

  Retirement, Debt Free, Goal

  "Color of Money Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price crash to the worrying news from some banks in Europe and the US. All of that is linked: Worldwide company debt is high and there is a lot of money in circulation. That is why necessary structural reforms are not being made.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Europe, Oil, Worry

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

  Chris Hayes

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm not a fan of debt consolidation. In my experience, many people "clear" credit cards and other debt to get the one payment and never change what they need to change to prevent getting into debt again.

  Michelle Singletary

  People, Fans, Needs

  "Color of Money Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.

  Alexander Chee

  Inspiration, Order, Gestures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Oil, Years

  Source: progressive.org

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