It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
Lucas Papademos
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.
Vladimir Putin
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
Robert Reich
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Jeffrey Sachs
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb