"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

Debt, Tax, Taxcuts

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"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

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"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Debt, Fraud

"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Debt, Man, Nobility

"Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute."

Joe Manchin III, American Politician

Debt, Economy, Jobs, Now

"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

John Spratt, American Politician

Debt, Tax, Taxcuts

"King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France."

Joan of Arc, French Celebrity

Debt, EnglFrance, Heaven

"Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?"

Karl Rove, American Politician

Debt, Eye, Years

"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Debt, First

"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

Debt, Man, State

"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

Robert Service, Scottish Poet

Debt, Promise

"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."

William Wycherley, English Dramatist

Debt, Friends, Hate, Poets

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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

Government, Country, President, Right

"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."

Money, Defense, Will

"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."

Education, Health, Care, Environment

"What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt."

War, People, America, Children

"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."

Army, Crime, Military, Prison

"Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden."

Politics, America, Burden, Country, Economy

"This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner."

War, United

"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."

Nation, Country, End, Troops, Weapons

"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."

Democracy, Democrats, Military, Republicans, Support

"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

Duty, Troops