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“This kicks it off with a bang. The public was invited and now they are being told they can't attend, and in the middle of Sunshine Week. It's almost an ironic tragedy that it is occurring.”
Adria Harper
“Mr. President, that whimsical English professor, Dr. Parkinson, should formulate another Parkinson's law relating to the public debt since it so closely parallels his law on bureaucratic growth. Just as spending will always reach and overtake revenues so the public debt will constantly pierce the ceiling and finally go into orbit.”
Everett Dirksen
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other”
James Madison
“I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for increasing, by”
Thomas Jefferson
“It was announced publicly in the Diocese of Orlando,”
Adam Horowitz
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should betempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands shouldbe curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. 55 B.C.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people”
Wendell Phillips
“Any economy that is built on uncontrolled debt will eventually crash. [On US Economy Crisis]”
Med Yones
“This isn't for capital projects like roads and bridges. It's for private groups. A lot of this is taxpayer-supported debt going to the private sector. In some cases it might be warranted, but our very basic recommendation is to let people know what it is.”
Erika Rosenberg
“Folks, I don't want my president to leave office with a $10 trillion deficit. I don't want China to own more of our country through our debt.”
Zach Wamp
