- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commercial space industry owes a huge debt to Patti Grace Smith. There might not be a commercial spaceflight industry were it not for Patti's leadership.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
- Inflation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020