#debt

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. ↗

— William Wycherley

#friends #hate #like #poets #whom

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#ceiling #congress #consider #debt #debt ceiling

Truth never was indebted to a lie. ↗

— Edward Young

#lie #never #truth

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#creditors #debt #power #shifts #world

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #bad #because #bonds #cataclysmic

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#before #borrower #borrowers #credit #debt

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#debt #debt ceiling #get #law #need

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

#came #debt #deficit #deficits #did

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#bigger #company #deal #debt #four

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#book #civilization #fast #future #guide