#deb

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #coaches #debt #developing #free

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#additional #already #approved #argument #authorize

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#about #back #between #children #country

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#around #both #brussels #chaotic #concern

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.' ↗

— Jon Stewart

#dennis #dude #heard #him #i

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#american #any #assume #buying #chinese

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#debated #discussed #grew #i #intensely

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#complex #debate #had #issues #least

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. ↗

— John Sununu

#answer #any #basic #chance #circumstance