Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

our incomes here are not four times higher than the national average, so we?re more vulnerable to the debt situation.

Our goal is to serve God, and it's harder to do that when you're in debt.

Jeff Green

Our goal is to keep our debt level from rising. But as revenue rises, the debt will be less of a burden.

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.

Alan Greenspan

Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product),

I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.

Stanley Ho

We have always said that for the projects we look for 65%-35% debt-to-equity. From an equity point of view, we are already fully funded,

Robert Reich

Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

We'll reschedule the debt to the IMF later, especially that the money has not been spent.

We wanted to have no debt when we got married except for a house payment, so we paid for the wedding as we went.

Tracy Austin

We all need to show a debt of gratitude toward Billie.

Maya Angelou

Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.

We feel great about where we are with our debt strategy,

Howard Dean

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

We do not manage the task. We only make debt planning that will be proposed by ministries and financial institution. There will be no overlapping in debt management.

The JGB market got some lift from losses in stock prices and from index-trackers (funds) stepping in to purchase government debt paper.

James Madison

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Kent Conrad

All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt,

The market's weak without much attraction. We didn't get the news about the debt swap that everybody was waiting for.

The market is pricing in a policy shift, including a rate hike some time later this year, as the economy is showing signs of a pick-up. Shorter debt may remain under pressure.

The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (economic) perspective.

Lucas Papademos

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

Samuel Johnson

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Tom Daschle

a revisit back to the early 1980s -- $3 trillion of debt later.

Robert Kiyosaki

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Our debt of gratitude is too great to express in words. They gave us the most precious gift -- freedom, ... Today, I salute them.

Jon Runyan

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.