Hiram Johnson Quotes

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

a king-sized cancer on our economy.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

Better to be screwed physically than financially.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

I have met so many people who had their life savings wiped out, who lost their homes, who are barely back with their heads above water.This was a disaster for our country, and we can never let that happen again.

This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.

When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.

We are used to being sold out by people we elect.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .