Debts Quotes (860 Quotes)




    If I'm going to be the nagging mother type, if you have a lot of debt, especially high-interest credit-card debt, pay some of that off with your refund.




    This would be the first example of a stadium being developed from the outset for two N.F.L. teams, ... The cost of these buildings has skyrocketed to such a degree that it makes far more economic sense to share the debt service and the revenues. The net revenues for the two teams are likely to be significantly better than if they each built their own stadium.



    England's national debt would not be so great an evil as it now appears to us, if England's aristocracy would concede that this burden should be borne by the class who were benefited by the cost of wars, namely, by the rich.

    Sumitomo Mitsui owes more than the other banks, yet its profitability is very good. It's not surprising it wants to show it's eager to pay the debt as soon as possible. Owing the government gives a bad impression.


    And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cuts also could have unwanted economic consequences, including higher interest rates, greater inflation and a larger public debt. The tax cuts that have been put on the table represent a reversal of course, ... Confidence is crucial. It is time for us to make the right and prudent decision.


    As a public investor, if you've seen a company do a couple of dividend recapitalizations, be on warning. You may be getting a company that's crippled with debt.

    OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession it meant 'own,' and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

    Something's wrong when so many people use up their hard-earned savings, borrow from friends, take out loans and jeopardize their credit to pay off medical debt.

    As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.


    Lifting the debt burden from the poorest countries in the world brightens their prospects enormously. This is an achievement of historic proportions.


    Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.


    It will be a good look at Iraq 's economy and the economic reforms they are putting in place, and how they are getting in position to complete the debt deal and IMF financing.


    It's been a steady, slow grind down, the same thing we've been seeing for weeks, ... You have the financials getting hit hard on the Enron stories and concerns about debt. Citigroup is heavily weighted and it's having an impact on the rest of the sector.



    While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

    When he was here, this was small time. We had to go through some very, very difficult times early on. When I first started, the department was over 2 million in debt, there was no one in the (football) stadium, we had issues with Title IX. We had to start from scratch, and there were some very difficult decisions made. Joel was in the middle of that.

    I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

    The right way includes an immediate tax for those Americans most affected by the economic slowdown and a budget that leaves enough money to pay off the debt, invest in the needs and priorities of the American people, and keep interest rates low and our economy strong,


    Upward rating potential exists, but will need to be accompanied by some combination of a reduction in the debt load, continued growth in liquidity, and consistent growth in cash flow leading to higher coverage levels.

    We should gradually increase imports to reduce the large surplus between U.S.-China and gradually buy less U.S. debt. Holding so much foreign-exchange reserves exerts a great deal of pressure on our monetary policy.




    We are in the final leg. I am positive that these countries will help extinguish the debt, which was mostly direct transfers to the Iraqi central bank to finance the war with Iran.


    I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

    The ratio of corporate debt to gross domestic product (GDP) is at an all-time high, ... And we don't know exactly what corporate debt is because so much has been parked off the balance sheet and hidden. But, even without knowing what the off-balance-sheet debt is, corporations have too much.

    I'm not inclined to totally forgive the debt. I'm not even inclined to compromise. It's just clear that the Japanese government did not meet the commitment it made last April. It's unfortunate, and this is the result.

    Here we are in some of the best economic times many of us have ever seen and they're deeper in debt than they've ever been. I think they sense they are in real financial trouble and if they don't get out of debt now, they wonder what will happen if the economy does turn down

    If you're an unemployed American, the debt that you want to have reduced is your debt for not being able to work -- the debt that you worry about in terms of paying your electrical bills, your gas bills and your rent and your food, the health care for your family.


    Considering that she started saving three years ago, she has done well, ... I applaud her choice to put more emphasis on quality of life and her lack of debt.







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