Debt Quotes and Sayings

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
- Gloria Swanson

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
- Barack Obama

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
- Jon Porter

If I owe you a pound I have a problem but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
- John Maynard Keynes

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Wendell Phillips

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush’s watch as “deficits as far as the eye can see.” But Mr. Obama’s budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
- Karl Rove

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
- Alexander

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
- Conrad Veidt

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
- Austin malley