The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

- Noam Chomsky

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

- Zana Marjanovic

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

- Wilbur Ross

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

- Scott Nearing

In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.

- Roger Altman

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

- Peter Orszag

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

- Peter DeFazio

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

- Paul Ryan

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

- Paul Ryan

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

- Alan Greenspan

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

- Martin Feldstein

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

- Mark Udall

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

- Lauren Conrad

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

- Kelley Armstrong

We should, as a country, be very concerned about our borrowing cost.

- John Delaney

It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.

- John C. Calhoun

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

- Douglas Alexander