That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

In June 1960 Sarbanes married Christine Dunbar of Brighton England; they have three children (John Sarbanes Michael Anthony Sarbanes and Janet Matina Sarbanes) and seven grandchildren. Soper before entering private practice with two Baltimore Maryland law firms. Sarbanes later went on to win reelection four more times each time with receiving no less than 59% of the vote.

with 59% of the vote in Maryland's 1976 Senate election. Sarbanes later went on to win reelection four more times each time with receiving no less than 59% of the vote.