I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.

- Kenneth Chenault

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

- Vladimir Putin

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

- Thomas Jefferson

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

- Roger Stone

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

- Robert Reich

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

- Phil Gingrey

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

- Ogden Nash

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

- Lucas Papademos

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

- Lord Byron

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

- Chuck Grassley

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

- Jeffrey Sachs

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

- James Madison

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

- George Osborne

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

- George Herbert

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

- Francois Rabelais

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

- Dave Ramsey

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

- Carter Glass