John Heywood Quotes

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

We have to make debt evil.

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

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

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

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

We shouldn’t be lending money to corrupt officials. We should be guarded in our generosity.

Abuses and perversions will of course arise and multiply in the administration of the public bounty

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

Massive Federal Budget Deficits are only the most conspicuous sign of a society that has promised itself more than it could afford.

Ukraine gives corruption a bad name…. The Ukrainian politicians have ripped off everything in the country that was not nailed down, and then they turned to the stuff that was nailed down.

We are broke—bankrupt—really bankrupt!

I am calling Shaktikanta Das as a corrupt person. I am surprised that the man I got removed from the Finance Ministry for corruption was brought in as governor.

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

It's clear from what we have already learned that the Obama administration freely used our tax dollars for political purposes, including support of the Soros operation.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is, what they are receiving in taxes is not sufficient to cover the spending that they are taking on. And any entity that does that, whether a family, a business, a government, is going to go broke and bankrupt. They are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.