Quotes About Debt Relief

#1. Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

Kofi Annan

#2. I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

George Clooney

#3. What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong,

Gordon Brown

#4. Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

J. P. Morgan

#5. So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

Jon Stewart

#6. What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

Paul Krugman

#7. When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

George Ayittey

#8. Greece, maneuvering for debt relief, is flirting treacherously with Moscow. Recession-hit economies such as Italy seem to believe business as normal with Russia trumps calls for solidarity over Ukraine.

Anonymous

#9. We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

William Easterly

#10. One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Gwen Ifill

#11. A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Yehudi Menuhin

#12. Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Thomas Szasz

#13. No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Edmund Phelps

#14. She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

Joe Hill

#15. We could sing to lift our spirits,' one of them suggested.
Believe me, you want me to end the chapter now.

M T Anderson

#16. Now don't go thinking nice things about me. You'll only be disappointed.

Ally Blake