Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Ryle

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

Gwen Ifill

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

I'm offended by the phrase 'paid his debt to society.' It sounds as if a life were for sale. I don't think it's a debt that's payable.

In particular, sustained efforts to strengthen the public finances have contributed to improved macroeconomic stability and robust growth. Zambia's external position has strengthened in recent years and debt relief has greatly reduced Zambia's external debt burden.

Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual debt. Web of Science lets researchers instantly recognize works that are well regarded by their peers. That way, they know they are basing their work on quality research.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

Kemal Dervis

This is a debt, not a gift, and we should use it very well,

They've already paid their debts to society, and then they're hit over the head again.

Martin Luther

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

Rand Paul

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

Rand Paul

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

Pat Paulsen

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

John Updike

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

John Sununu

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

James Goldsmith

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Grant

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

James Grant

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

George Gilder

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Jon Foreman

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

The healthcare business, on its own, would probably be worth in the mid-teens -- $14 to $16 a share depending on how much debt they put into the company. For the sum of the parts, I'd put the value at $36 to $38 a share.

The higher return might well be in reducing this debt as quickly as prudent.

The industry should seek for long-term financing for its investments as opposed to short-term debt.

The IMF realized that the world was watching and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

The IMF realized that the world was watching, and they couldn't deny millions of people the promised debt cancellation.

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

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.