Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Key

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

Otto Rank

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

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.

P. T. Barnum

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

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.

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.

Julia Ward Howe

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

At a time when we're not making our pension payments, when the state's in debt at record levels, we're not sure the time is right to do more borrowing.

A combination of debt and equity is what's being discussed.

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?

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Mark Zandi

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

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.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.