Brad Feld Quotes

What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

We have to deal with the nation's debt.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

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.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

When all things are considered, it will be found best for the Nation to leave the Borrowers and the Lender to make their own Bargains, according to the Circumstances they lie under

I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us with $19 trillion in debt.

President Obama has contempt for real money.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master.

Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

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.