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Debt Quotes
Lines on borrowing, risk, and recovery.
These quotes treat debt as a serious force in both personal and national life, echoing an old warning that unchecked debt can undermine governments as surely as war. A related economic reflection appears in our Debt Ceiling quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.
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- Nov 07, 2020