To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.
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You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
We all think we're going to get out of debt.
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.
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.
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