(1067 quotes found)
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt”
Herbert Hoover
“This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,”
Bob Geldof
“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.”
Romeo LeBlanc
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“The problem is that people are in serious debt in this country. Outstanding consumer debt is at all-time highs, and debt is like an illness. You don't solve an illness by making it harder to get into a hospital, which is what bankruptcy court is for debtors.”
Brad Botes
“Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.”
Bill Clinton
“I think myself and a lot of other documentary directors owe a debt to fiction filmmaking. The key was to follow the characters and let the narrative be your guide, without getting distracted by other things. By structuring 'Enron' like a heist film, it enables people to understand enough of the complexity without getting bogged down by it.”
Alex Gibney
“This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'”
Dave Ramsey
“It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place”
Carl Lofmark
