Frankie Boyle Quotes

I've been Secretary of the Treasury for 147 days, and in that 147 days I've written $133 billion worth of hot checks.

If you undertake to divide all these appropriations and have many committees where there should be but one, you will enter upon a path of extravagance that you cannot foresee … until we find the Treasury of the country bankrupt.

When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'

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.

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

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

That Jew is going to spend our surplus.

We have spent years robbing Peter to pay Paul until now Paul is also broke.

America will suffer under Trump.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

When you see celebrities say, 'I hope the economy bottoms out to get rid of Trump,' I think that helps Trump.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

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.