“ It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances. Alexander Hamilton Founding Father Of The United States
“ The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed. Babatunde Fashola
“ Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. Benjamin Disraeli Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
“ Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. Chaka Fattah U.S. Representative