Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.
The primary factor that enables our government to peddle economic snake oil is the dollar's unique role as the world's reserve currency, and our creditors' willingness to preserve its status. By buying up dollars and loaning them back to us through Treasury debt, productive countries give American politicians cart blanche to play Santa Claus.
If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file. ' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.
There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately the only party that can pay the debt is the government, because it runs the printing presses. So the debts ultimately either are paid by the government, or they're paid by a huge transfer of property from debtors to creditors - or, the debts are written off.
You really don't need to hire a debt settlement company to negotiate with your creditors.
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.
