Top Debt Quotes
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
Rodrigo Rato
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Rand Paul
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
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I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
Rodrigo Rato 
73% of people like this quote
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Rand Paul 
70% of people like this quote
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice 
67% of people like this quote
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley 
64% of people like this quote
Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
Steve Israel 
62% of people like this quote
While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.
Tom Harkin 
60% of people like this quote
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
William Vickrey 
60% of people like this quote
What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
John Spratt 
60% of people like this quote
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