Kayleigh McEnany Quotes

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

Greece's debt is going to be a function of a lot of factors down the road.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

To paraphrase Hemingway, people go broke slowly and then all at once. We've been slowly going broke for years, but now it's happening all at once as the world's capital markets are demanding action from us, yet Obama assumes we'll just go borrow another cup of sugar from some increasingly impatient neighbor. We cannot knock on anyone's door anymore. And we don't have any time to wait for Washington to start behaving responsibly. We'll be Greece before these D.C. politicians' false promises are over. We must force government to live within its means, just as every business and household does.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

The entitlement state has driven us into insolvency.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!