David Letterman Quotes

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.

Look, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our money, and on top of that they have loaned the money to us and we actually pay them interest now on money. We owe China and Japan each $1.4 trillion.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.

China, Japan, and Asia in general have been happy to hold U.S. debt instruments in recent decades, but they will not prop up our spending habits forever…. The greatest threat facing America today is not terrorism, or foreign economic competition, or illegal immigration. The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation.

We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.

I mean I imagine I could have done a better job with keeping my paperwork and paying my taxes. For the most part, everything happened exactly the way it should.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

I pay my taxes when I was with ABS-CBN as an actress; when I was with Binibini, so I'll continue on doing that as long as I'm earning money here, like everybody else.

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.