Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Brown

This is the end of a historic process that has led to debt relief for these poor countries,

Preston Sturges

The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.

This erases our debt completely. We're just really excited.

It puts you in a precarious spot where you have to worry about further losses pushing you into situation where you wouldn't meet the debt covenants.

It's useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt ... as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that debt has been written off as a result of the support by the international community.

Will Rogers

For every nation and every individual, the principal worry is debt.

The year 2006 must set a stage for the Zambian economy to move to higher levels of sustained growth in the wake of massive debt forgiveness.

They are signing on for large debts with low initial interest rates that can skyrocket ultimately.

This path may lead to many years of struggling with high-interest-rate debt and limited resources. The result is a feeling of being trapped.

There may be some selling as people want a higher coupon for the new debt. A 2.2 percent coupon may disappoint investors.

The remaining requirement of up to A$2 billion, we will look at funding options from the debt market, probably in 2003.

You plunge yourself further and further into debt, rental prices drop, you can't make your mortgage payments and you're forced to sell for less than you owe.

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

Murray Rothbard

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

Julia Ward Howe

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Government debt sold off too much. Yields are high enough to lure investors. Yields already reflect speculation that a rate increase may come in the fourth quarter of 2006.

J. Reuben Clark

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

George Herbert

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

Jerry Bridges

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Francis Quarles

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Harvey Weinstein

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

By and large, we're seeing a public that is up to his eyeballs in debt.

Paul Ryan

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

Paul Ryan

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Mitch Daniels

I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

Publilius Syrus

Debt is the slavery of the free.

P. T. Barnum

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Francois Rabelais

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

George Washington

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

George Washington

..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt...

George Osborne

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

George Osborne

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.