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"I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt."
"Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners."
"And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams."
"When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of."
"What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted."
"If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control."
"There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice."
"Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net."
"It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price."
"My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole."
"He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well."
"To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged."
"Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives."
"There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry."
"Words pay no debts, give her deeds."
"We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd."
"The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid."
"Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt."
"You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time."
"The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt."
