To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. – Paul Gillmor
Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. – Rick Perry
Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. – Ron Kind
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government. – Rand Paul
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. – Rutherford B. Hayes
Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines. – Robert Manning
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. – Richard Lamm
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There’s a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it’s authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn’t authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. – Peter Welch
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim. – Queen Elizabeth II
When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs. – Ryan Tedder
The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate. – Oliver E. Williamson
I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who’ve doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks. – Rand Paul
If we reach the debt ceiling, we don’t have to default. Getting to that point just won’t allow us to reach new debt. – Ron DeSantis
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top. – Roger Ebert
I’m constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: ‘This is how much interest I owe.’ – Rami Malek
It’s disappointing that President Obama – who ran for office in 2008 saying he was going to be a fiscally responsible president – has caused the largest deficits and the largest debt in American history. – Raul Labrador
If we weren’t running deficits, if we weren’t spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling. – Ron Johnson
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees. – Raghuram Rajan
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor. – Peter Welch