Michael Moore Quotes

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.

I finished my higher education deeply in debt and with seven years of bad credit in my future.

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.