Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from others.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara we won't have much strength and eventually we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not as our military friends say a 'robust strategy.'

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara we won't have much strength and eventually we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not as our military friends say a 'robust strategy.'

Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature but don't lend it to your neighbours.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed spent and wasted.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.