Financial Problem Quotes

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

We can't continue to spend where there isn't any money.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has every been given to civilization … Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.

In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

My name's been on this check for a week now.

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

The problem of indebtedness is part of a larger and more comprehensive problem, namely the existing imbalances in the international economic order.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Illinois has severe budget problem. You cannot cut your way out of the problem.

There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems.