Cynthia McKinney Quotes

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

A public debt is a public curse and in a representative government greater than any other.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

Demonetisation was not a decision of UP government. It is the central government's decision.

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

The truth is we need to build an economy going forward with all of us, when we all move forward and the payment of a national debt is not the responsibility of one group of Americans versus another.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

Government is just spending too much money.

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.