Insolvency Quotes

• This is a derivative, if you will, of Cloward-Piven [theory]. "[Stephen] Lerner's plan is to organize a mass, coordinated 'strike' on mortgage, student loan, and local government debt payments - thus bringing the banks to the edge of insolvency and forcing them to renegotiate the terms of the loans.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Government   Debt   Derivatives  

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth   Promise   Debt  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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  Frank Borman

  Money   Good Christian   Hell  

  Quoted in Forbes, 8 June 1981

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• Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.

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  Robert Bridges

  Men   Joy   Pathways  

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• Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

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  Mitt Romney

  Fall   Government   Progress  

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• We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency.

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  Harvey Mansfield

  Party   Ambition   Political  

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• Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.

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  Jeff Sessions

  Balance   Immigration   Dollars  

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• We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

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  Tony Benn

  War   July   Play  

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. October 23, 2000.

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• The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

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  William Howard Arnold

  Inspirational   Travel   World  

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