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  • If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

    Ceilings   Saving   Debt  
  • It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

  • We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

    Law   Ceilings   Needs  
    "Fiscal cliff: hopes rise for deal as Jim DeMint quits Senate" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
  • The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

    "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.
  • The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.

    Suicide   Thinking   Guy  
  • We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

    Mean   Government   Debt  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

    Thinking   Order   People  
  • The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

    Barack Obama's speech Against Raising The Debt Ceiling on the floor of the US Senate, www.redstate.com. March 16, 2006.
  • The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

  • Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

    Real   Debt   Ceilings  
  • If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

    Debt   Ceilings   Vote  
    "Hannity", Fox News, April 12, 2011.
  • If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

    Thinking   People   Pay  
    "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.
  • Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

  • The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

    Simple   Ceilings   Debt  
  • I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

    "Freshman 'embarrassed' by rookies" by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.
  • First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

    Believe   Ceilings   Debt  
  • When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every single year. And I really think people are getting sick of having this news cycle every single year from Congress, from the Washington bubble.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

    Ceilings   Fiction   Debt  
    "Republican Senator Wants Deeper Spending Cuts". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. February 08, 2011.
  • The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

    "It's Worth Actually Reading Obama's 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech". www.slate.com. October 09, 2013.
  • I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

  • I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

  • We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

    "Reid: Tie debt ceiling, fiscal cliff" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. November 27, 2012.
  • Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

    Ceilings   Debt   Way  
    "Interview with Senator Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Charlie Bass". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 12, 2011.
  • The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.

  • Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.

    "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2011.
  • Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

  • The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

  • Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

    America   Pay   Bills  
    Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 4, 2011.
  • America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

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