Top 1200 Debt Ceiling Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

I often say that paying off your debt is like dieting. There are no miracle cures; it takes discipline and hard work.

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.

Seek the Lord and give God the opportunity to provide through other means before you take out debt.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

We prefer an orderly resolution to the debt crisis and we're moving in that direction. But the most important thing is that the deal we reach with creditors is sustainable.

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

President Obama's Department of Education pledged to solve the student debt crisis, but it was utterly inept in its effort to address the issue.

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.