Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.
Nina Easton
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I invested all my money in debt.
Hamish Linklater
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When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
Ryan Tedder
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria
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The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.
Marilu Henner
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I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.
Jim Flaherty
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
Dan Benishek
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We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
Mark Zandi
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I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.
Jim DeMint
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama
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I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
Kenneth Langone
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The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.
Jerry A. Webman
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Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
Julian Baggini
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Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
Gwen Ifill
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Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.
Robert Manning
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President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
Glenn Hubbard
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I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.
Matt Rosendale
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I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.
Eric Schneiderman
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We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.
Jeffrey Sachs
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Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.
Eugene Fama
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
Michael Bloomberg
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We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Elizabeth Warren
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
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