Top 1200 National Debt Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.

The burden of student loan debt weighs heavily on both students and families across New Jersey.

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

The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

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

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

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

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.

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.

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!

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

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

We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.

America owes a debt of gratitude to all service members who have fought to preserve the freedoms we all know and cherish today.

You never cash out a 401(k) or IRA to pay off debt, unless it's to avoid a foreclosure or bankruptcy.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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.

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

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

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

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

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

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.

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.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

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

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

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

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.

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.

As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.

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

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

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

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

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

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

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

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

If you're one of the millions of people who have student debt right now, I'll help you refinance your loans at better rates.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

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.

The global boom in commodities fueled by a debt-financed infrastructure and real-estate bubble in China is over.

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

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.

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.

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.