Debt Reduction Quotes

#1. Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

William J. Clinton

#2. People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.

George Soros

#4. I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Carly Fiorina

#5. The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

John Ricard

#6. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

#7. Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Kathleen Norris

#8. To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.

Pamela Love

#9. But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

David Plouffe

#10. Because it isn't a loss; just a little piece of their haven had broken off. People can patch things; it still may hurt, but that's life.

Mandi Lynn

#11. Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

Jerry Thomas

#12. Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Kevin Heath

#13. The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

Mike Patton

#14. Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Tom Holt

#15. Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives getting over

Kristi Pelton

#16. In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.

Mark Blyth