Debts Quotes (860 Quotes)

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

The real European-African partnership should be based on promoting development and liberating the African continent from its debts, which have been preventing economic progress and depriving Africa of its equitable share in the global economy,

That doesn't factor in mortgage costs, but they wouldn't reduce those returns dramatically either. Of course, when prices are falling, leveraging can work in reverse. But that's infrequent with real estate. As long as you can service the debt, I think you're better off with the mortgage.

fiscally irresponsible ... with the debt we're carrying and the uncertainty -- we really don't know yet how much more the Iraq war costs.

This type of bankruptcy is for the person who is barely making it, who can barely pay their rent or mortgage and food and has no extra money to pay debts. It relieves them of the debt and removes the creditors' rights to sue the debtor.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

The most important thing about the new law is that it will protect vulnerable consumers from getting caught in an endless cycle of debt.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into

Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

The reduction in sales is a plus for bonds. Investor confidence in the government's ability to manage public debt is increasing.

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

The best thing that I will want to have is not to have debt at all, ... So when you talk of rescheduling, I'm apprehensive. When you talk of remission, even staying of interest for some time, will be one way. But we cannot, we cannot, talk of being able to do what we need to do ... bearing the burden of debt that is hanging over us at this time.

.We got to the point of identifying the value of the debt in 20032004, entered into four-way discussions - Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Justice, the university and the law school - to agree on the debt. The Ministry of Finance then proposed a payment plan to clear the debt and that's the plan we are working with.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

It's a debt you owe, so you should pay it. If you don't, we're not going to just forget about it. We're going to do our best to see that it's paid.

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

They expressed interest and we saw it as an opportunity to reduce debt.

One should repay the loans he has taken as soon as possible. A debtor can never enjoy peace of mind and happiness as long as he is under the burden of debts.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

This country cannot continue to run trillions of dollars in debt without considering the consequences to future generations. You don't have to be all broke out in brilliance to know that when you spend more money than you take in you eventually go broke. I think everyone agrees that we have a financial situation on our hands that deserves the attention of the President and every Member of Congress. We ask nothing short of an immediate budget summit to get this country back on the right financial track.

You have guided monetary policy through stock market crashes, wars, terrorist attacks and natural disasters, ... You have made a great contribution to the prosperity of the U.S. and the nation is in your debt.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

In the last four years, the Republican Party has turned record budget surpluses into the largest budget deficits in American history, deficits as far as the eye can see, ... Democrats believe that it's not only irresponsible -- but it is immoral as well -- to force our children and grandchildren to pay our bills by incurring this debt.

I just don't think the violence will achieve anything. The debt campaigners have never been violent, and they have achieved a lot.

We want to make sure we are able to provide the kind of technical services to candidates and state parties and fully execute a bold political plan, and we want to do that at the same time we make regular, substantive payments on the debt.

We're profitable and have the potential to be very profitable, ... We generate cash from operations of over 1 billion per quarter. We have 19 billion in cash and equivalents in an industry that is in debt. We've gained more market share than we've ever gained in this last quarter. We've got the customer loyalty and strategy for where the industry's going, which is combining networks for service providers and enterprises. So I'm very optimistic about our future if we execute right.

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

Trying to cure the economy by creating new debt is like planting thistle weed seed and hoping for daffodils No matter how great the intentions, you still get stuck in the end

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Couples' wealth disagreements arise because men report higher values for the family assets, while women report larger values for the family's debts.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Delta's problem is not labor, it's debt. They have achieved labor cuts, and can achieve more because they have only two unions. But until they can restructure their debt, they are in big trouble.

The 4.5 billion punitive damages ordered by Judge H. Russell Holland is not a debt that is owed. Rather, they represent a windfall well in excess of the amount the jury found necessary to compensate the plaintiffs for their losses.

Taking on debt to accumulate savings is an obvious contradiction. It seems more like a clever marketing ploy than a legitimate method for increasing savings.

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Restructuring our debt, lifting of sanctions and other measures like this will help us achieve our objectives,

When you run up this kind of deficit, we talk about increasing the debt limit, but one thing you have to do is pay interest on all of that debt.

You, like many people, have more debt than you want. This is a lot more common than you think. If doesn't matter if you have a lot of income or a little. If you spend more than you make, you will sink into debt.

Small debts are like small gun shot they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of the debt crisis and moratorium of 1987 followed by the restructuring of the mid 1990s signaling the beginning of new stage that could eventually lead the credit to investment grade status within a few years.

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

This administration is driving us over the cliff into deeper and deeper debt.

A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond strategies, combined with an avoidance of anything that carries those low-risk premiums that Greenspan finally diagnosed, ... Those assets include real estate, equities, high yield, corporate, and some areas of emerging-market debt.

They might get, in our view, on a decent day, an enterprise value of 2.9bn to 3bn but you've got to take 2bn of debt off that.

I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.

Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them