Bankruptcy Quotes

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Said, State, Pay

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, Moral, While

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, While, Economic

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen

Education, Moral, Lack

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Frank Borman

Hell, Capitalism

Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.
Suze Orman

Understand, Student, Debt

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
Chris Christie

Leadership, Politics, Health

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.
Susan Orlean

Books, Borders, Somewhat

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
Marilyn vos Savant

Life, Her, Individual

As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
Arlen Specter

Doubt, Through, Country

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Medical, America, Cause

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist

Powerful, Words, Personal

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.
Debbie Stabenow

Home, Medical, Lose

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.
Ed Koch

After, Proud, Another

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.
Roger Goodell

Anyone, Gone, Lots

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Debt, Situation, Company

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
Jim Cooper

Change, Medical, Away

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.
Lucas Papademos

Crisis, Difficult, Year

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski

Family, Government, Rules

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
Jane Byrne

Future, Eyes, Nation

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
John Conyers

Health, Powerful, Care

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
Russ Feingold

Job, Sense, Making

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren

Often, Almost, Labor

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
David Dinkins

Wise, Today, Again

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
Tim Holden

Family, Made, National

High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.
Ruben Hinojosa

Life, Education, High

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
Chaka Fattah

Country, Republican, Taken

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
Wolfgang Schauble

Cannot, State, Second

Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.
Wolfgang Schauble

Important, Reason, National

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