Alexander James Dallas Quotes

Not only have government bills been dishonored and the interest on the public debt remains unpaid, but … so completely empty is the Treasury and destitute of credit, that funds cannot be obtained to defray the ordinary expenses of the different departments.

We cannot allow the heavy weight of the debt to bring us to our knees..

… there is such a general scarcity of Cash that nothing We have will Command it & Real Estates of Every kind are falling at least one half in value. Debtors that were a year or two ago responsible for £1000 can not now Raise a fourth part of the sum & those who had putt out their money upon Land Security of double the value are unable to get the principal as there is an Entire Stop to all sales by the sheriff for want of Buyers and Men of the best Estates amongst us can Scarce Raise money enough to defray the Necessary Expenses of their family’s. Our Stores in the Country that used to furnish Every necessary for the inhabitants are all shut up

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

We are broke—bankrupt—really bankrupt!

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

We are spending a little more than we are raising each year and you wonder how long it can go on. It is too easy for us to borrow.

The government was unable to avert or to control the course of events.

The will is there; the money is not there.

With inflation, debts and bills fly to the sky

It is impossible, financially and politically, to lower expenditure to the level of our revenues in the calamitous times in which we live, and so, however painful and afflicting the idea may be, we must exist from day to day and simply await the outcome of events yet in the making …

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.