Debts Quotes (860 Quotes)

There's nothing positive to be said about it. What's happening now is foreigners are looking to buy higher yielding paper, including agency and corporate debt.

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April's ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

If the debt upgrade happens, it will likely benefit banking issues the most.

We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

I'm still concerned his plan does not do enough to reduce the debt,

Sentiment is building that the Fed may pause for a while after raising rates to 5 percent next month. That helps shorter-maturity debt, especially two-year notes.

1.) Ensure you can afford to repay the debt. That means keeping some emergency money liquid. I think living without any debt whatsoever is neither wise, nor practical, ... But if you're going to take out a loan, you must have emergency cash reserves.

Low interest rates and rampant house price appreciation have really been driving borrowing. As long-term rates finally start to rise, the pace of debt accumulation will slow.

Credit counseling sounds like a good thing. If the credit agency is sincerely concerned about the debtor then it's a good thing. However, if the credit agency is more concerned about a fee that is generated for them by consolidating the debt through their office, then it's a bad thing.

The majority of the countries claimed that they had cleared the debts, while others have no information of such debt due to changes of governments.

Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.

We're not in arrears. We're out of credit card debt.

There is an amount of the debt that can be paid down during this period of time, ... The rest will not have matured.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church, with its members independent and free from debt, with time to labor in the ministry, can then successfully carry on the work of the Lord here on earth.

I just can't see going into more debt for a recreation center. There's needs, wants and desires, and we need to take care of the needs. I think it's foolish to have more debt.

The retail operations have to find a way to make money at some point, and if you've got a 1.7 billion in debt, then you've got to generate some pretty good cash flow to service that debt.

There's a myth that debt is dangerous.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

All of them are being threatened by this policy of ever escalating deficits and debt,

I think myself and a lot of other documentary directors owe a debt to fiction filmmaking. The key was to follow the characters and let the narrative be your guide, without getting distracted by other things. By structuring 'Enron' like a heist film, it enables people to understand enough of the complexity without getting bogged down by it.

This will be paid for, there's no debt. We're not going to do have to do a levy and ask for money from anybody,

There was a concern ahead of the auction whether there is enough demand for the long-dated debt, such as 20-and 30-year bonds. Thirty-year debt has fallen to a level where investors can think about buying.

The big question was when this writing off of debt was going to end. We seem to have reached that level.

Most people think of us as this flamboyant airline, ... but we're really very conservative from the fiscal standpoint. . . . We never got dangerously in debt and never let costs get out of hand.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

One-hundred-year-old debt or 50-year-old debt is one thing, but 10 years is a pretty short window. Somebody with deep pockets can hire lawyers and play some legal games.

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Obviously, now if the revenue is this good, they have no excuse for not paying off the debt.

But it hasn't. The debt market expects Greenspan will achieve a soft landing, which means corporate earnings aren't going to crash and the outlook for corporate borrowers remains positive. That's driven yields lower, which in turn has kept borrowing costs lower for companies.

Many investors did not expect that yields would decline from the start of the year. They rather not to have a 1.4 percent coupon the new debt.

Expansion via debt is a good move for Chocolates, which has zero debt now. It may put the company on peoples' radar screens more and help its shares gain more value.

History has been kinder to Churchill than many of his contemporaries ever were. Some may be surprised to learn that the following luminary from the field of science-fiction had anything political to say at all 'Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Fuehrer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventures and opportunities of British political life. He has never given evidence of thinking extensively, or of any scientific or literary capacity.... His ideology, picked up in the garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home and the conversation of wealthy Conservative households, is a pitiful jumble of incoherent nonsense. A boy scout is better equipped. He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him....'

After working around the clock since Monday, this office, along with the Postal Inspector's office were able to develop evidence that Phillip Bennett had played an active role in hiding from the public the debt from Refco,

The goal of these asset dispositions is to get us above a coverage ratio of two times interest. The EBITDA generated by these properties isn't as great as the interest reduction we can get by selling the property and taking out debt.

The fourth month of gains in core prices could certainly push the central bank a step further toward raising interest rates. Debt maturing in five-years or less will remain weak.

The wildcard here is always management. The industry is slowing and it would be nice to see them pay down some debt and accumulate some cash instead of going off in all these different Don Quixote missions.

Given the company's small amount of debt relative to its cash flow, this is a good time to return cash to our shareholders.

And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

When they eliminated the bond, it was already obvious that the prospect of paying off the debt was evaporating before our eyes.

This data is worse than what had been given to the European Commission. There's an increase in debt for a second year in a row after there had been such an effort made to lower it.

This is involuntary debt. It doesn't reflect on a person's willingness to pay.

There's nothing in this statement that we didn't already know, ... Telecom operators have not been spending and six months ago we thought Marconi would go bust. Its priority is to cut debt.

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.

I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.

The bottom line is that credit-based spending remains incredibly strong. Debt levels continue to rise and if there is any upward adjustment to interest rates, that would have major impact on debt serving costs.

The president has made it very clear that he will not sign any budget measure that doesn't put Social Security and Medicare first, that doesn't take those steps forward (and) certainly any measures that would put at risk the progress we've made in paying down the debt,