National Debt Quotes - Page 5

• Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Government, Ideas

  Ronald Reagan's Lettert to Richard Nixon, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 1984.

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• The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Government, Political, Needs

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• The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

  Russell Kirk

  Law, Land, Age

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Government, People

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• We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited a foreign policy marked by one disaster after another. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war? Do we win anything? Do we win anything? We're going to win. We're going to win big, folks. We're going to start winning again, believe me.

  Donald Trump

  War, Believe, Winning

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

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• President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Bridges, Airports

  Donald Trump’s Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, abcnews.go.com. July 22, 2016.

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Food, Wine

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• What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Debt, Social

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• When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt. When President Obama came into office, he inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Cutting, Two

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

  Donald Trump

  President, Debt, Regimes

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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• I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

  Donald Trump

  Energy, Debt, Pay

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Trying, United States

  Source: time.com

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• I do not add a penny to the national debt.

  Hillary Clinton

  Add, Debt, Pennies

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Cutting, Years, Income

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

  Stefan Molyneux

  Real, War, Cells

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• It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!

  Richard Darman

  Eight, Years, Hours

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• It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Democracies Have, Government, Law

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.175, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

  George H. W. Bush

  Memorable, Patriotic, Political

  1988 Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19 Aug.

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• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

  Tom Allen

  Country, Important, Looks

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• The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people.

  Steve Forbes

  Heart, People, Political

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• Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

  Bobby Scott

  Ice Cream, Profound, Debt

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• Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

  Mitt Romney

  Fall, Government, Progress

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