Debt Quotes

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

"I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more."
-Alan Greenspan

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
-Thomas Jefferson

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
-Alexander Hamilton

"We're not in arrears. We're out of credit card debt."
-Scott Andrews

"It seems unbelievable that the IMF is now boldly undoing the debt deal…agreed at its own annual meetings in September."
-Max Lawson

"If you look casually at a picture of debt burden and bankruptcies, they walk together."
-Kartik Athreya

"Without this action we would reach the debt limit today."
-Brookly Mclaughlin

"It does not go against your debt service. It will not have a negative impact on the city."
-Larry Ward

"The average debt per household is $9,000. The rate now is $180. It will be $360."
-Howard Dvorkin

"We're getting rid of credit card debt over the next few months."
-John Ammatelli

"They could have been monetized and applied to debt."
-Paul Davner

"Most Americans are now aware of the consumer debt trap and the need to build wealth, but don't believe they can do so."
-Stephen Brobeck

"We know that the people of San Francisco don't have an appetite for taxpayer-backed debt."
-Lisa Lang

"What type of career I choose will depend on the amount of debt I have when I graduate."
-Robert Fischer

"The debt is still something that has to be resolved."
-Matthew Cordaro

"A combination of debt and equity is what's being discussed."
-Craig Parsons

"This is a debt, not a gift, and we should use it very well."
-Kemal Dervis

"Layering debt on the operation of the Hall of Fame was something we were absolutely committed not to do."
-John Tate

"[The airline's hangar has approximately $25 million in debt,] not to us, but to bondholders, ... That's the only problem area we anticipate."
-Louis Miller

"The debt management plan is really a repayment plan."
-Deanne Loonin

"I'm still concerned his plan does not do enough to reduce the debt."
-John Webber

"We need that 500 to become customers in order for us to have the base that we need to pay down the debt."
-Lorenzo Carmon

"With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround."
-Hiroshi Sato

"There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks."
-Richard Jerram

"They go into debt to get an education -- and you're already in debt just living."
-Patricia Houston

"We all have a debt that we need to pay. That's just one of the things that we're giving back to the community we live in."
-Bill Morris

"Extending the debt payment gives them a chance to build their business."
-Matthew Harrigan