When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
George Ayittey
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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
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I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.
Frank Abagnale
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It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.
Cory Booker
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We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
Danny K. Davis
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While I'd like to be able to simply do all of my financings with a handshake or, possibly, on a napkin written in crayon, I also wish I had a herd of unicorns surrounded by rainbows, a balanced U.S. government budget, and agreement on how to address the debt ceiling issue.
Brad Feld
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I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
Benny Hinn
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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Arne Duncan
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The IMF played crucial roles in the 1980s debt crisis and in the transformation of former communist economies. Radical change, many might argue, is neither necessary nor desirable.
Zanny Minton Beddoes
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Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
Arthur Smith
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
Ted Cruz
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If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
Phil McGraw
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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
S. Truett Cathy
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In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
Peter Thiel
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt.
Sean Duffy
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We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.
Pam Bondi
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How can we pressure China on North Korea if China's one of the two largest holders of American debt?
Richard N. Haass
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I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.
Kanye West
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The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
Nicola Sturgeon
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
Gary Weiss
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War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.
Murray Rothbard
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
Adam Hasner
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Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
Mariano Rajoy
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