I have today left hospital after a week in which the NHS has saved my life, no question. It’s hard to find words to express my debt. I will be grateful for the rest of my life. – Boris Johnson After release from hospital for coronavirus treatment.
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion. – Hank Johnson
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt. – Hank Johnson
The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president’s willing to do. And they don’t like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen. – Harry Reid
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating. – Harvey Weinstein
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn’t learned to be civil – note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. – Grover Norquist
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans. – Hank Johnson
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. – George Dennison Prentice
If you put a purchase on a charge card, you’re paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt. – Gregory Meeks
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they’re not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. – John Thune
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint
Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. – Jean Chatzky
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt. – Jonathan Sacks
Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal. – Jennifer Granholm
As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work. – John Delaney
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery. – Jonah Goldberg
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
The truth is that the United States doesn’t need, and shouldn’t have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. – James Surowiecki
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures. – John C. Calhoun
I’m very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt. – Jeremy Corbyn
The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending – that’s my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution. – Jason Chaffetz
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. – Jason Chaffetz
I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. – Jim DeMint
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. – Ike Skelton