Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

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

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

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.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

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.

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

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.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams.

I'm the king of debt.

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

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.

Once you start getting money, it relieves your stress of worrying about how you're going to pay your next bill. It's more like another stress of how many bills you have to pay.