Top 1200 Debt Ceiling Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

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

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling or what about the windows. The main thing is that this house, Africa, has fallen. Literature is just one aspect, pick any aspect of the situation.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in '65, '66, they used to call me 'Screaming Chicken,' 'cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

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.

Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

In my immigrant family we revered Margaret Thatcher. She was aspiration personified. She understood what it took to smash the glass ceiling. She shared our values and she empathised with our experiences. She really was the first British Asian Prime Minister.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.