Stephenie Meyer Quotes

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Government is just spending too much money.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

May the debt of the United States be discharged with speed and punctuality; and let not the people be deceived, by having the funds, established for that purpose, put to other uses.

Defaulting on our [national] debt is defaulting on America.

A stable currency and an excessive external debt are incompatible. A similar relation holds as between a country's currency and an excessive internal debt

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.