Debt Quotes - Page 34

• Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

  Thomas Frank

  These Days, Interest, Rate

  "Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2009.

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• We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

  Al Franken

  Unique, Views, Immigration

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Today, World

  "Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping a Better World" edited by Arthur B. Shostak, M.E. Sharpe, (p. 198), February 7, 2003.

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• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strength, Freedom, Republic

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Indira Gandhiʾs Legacy to the Indian Nation: Economic Development and the Public Sector”

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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  Lady Gregory

  Soul, Suffering, Weight

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The collected plays”

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• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  Naomie Harris

  People, Culture, Mindset

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• I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

  Francois Hollande

  Children, Want, Pay

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

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• I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Growth, Want

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• And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Impact, Currency

  "Huntsman Hawkish on Ryan Budget, Dovish on Afghanistan & Libya". "Good Morning America" with George Stephanopoulos, www.weeklystandard.com. May 20, 2011.

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Jail, People

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jewel

  Home, Alaska, Want

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• I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Vegas, People, Might

  "Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?" by Penn Jillette, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

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

  John Key

  Needs, Whole, Reliance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

  Stephen King

  War, Responsibility, America

  "Why Stephen King wants to pay more tax" by Patrick Kingsley, www.theguardian.com. May 01, 2012.

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• I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Gdp, Generations

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• Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

  James Lankford

  Crush, Insane, Liberty

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• We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

  Romeo LeBlanc

  Attitude, Heart, Matter

  Romeo LeBlanc's Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the 1996 Native Role Models, archive.gg.ca. February 23, 1996.

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• If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Business, Taxation Without Representation, Politics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will be so deep in debt it will have to go out of business - no more concussions.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Nfl, Want, Months

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• Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

  John Lydon

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Limited Resources, World

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Effort, Challenges

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• Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

  John Major

  Banking Crisis, Europe, Greek

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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