Debt Quotes

“We have a duty to ensure that our children and grandchildren are not saddled with a debt that they cannot repay.”

“A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”

“Don't get out of debt to get out of debt. Get out of debt to get ahead.”

“We need to get our fiscal house in order. We can't keep spending money we don't have.”

“I don't know where they're going to get the money, because we're broke.”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“Debt is the most efficient tool of domination ever invented.”

“We need a long-term budget plan. We have to have a long-term debt reduction plan. That's the only way we can go back to the constituents and say we're getting our house in order.”

“The U.S. is a hedge fund, basically. We have a lot of debt, and we have a lot of assets.”

“We have a problem. We have a massive, massive problem.”

“We have to get our fiscal house in order.”

“The national debt is a threat to our children's future.”

“If current laws remained generally unchanged, federal debt held by the public would exceed 100 percent of GDP by 2040.”

“We owe a debt of gratitude to our defenders that we can never fully repay.”

“We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to send to another country.”

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

“We cannot continue to mortgage our children's future with this unsustainable debt.”

“We can't mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt.”

“The basic point is that the U.S. has an unsustainable trajectory in its national debt.”

“A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabor that.”