Debt Ceiling Crisis

Famous quotes containing the words debt, ceiling and/or crisis:

“Ambition’s debt is paid.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“What made the ceiling waterproof?
Landor’s tarpaulin on the roof.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to “negotiate” between this hunger and this greed.”
—Meridel Le Sueur (b. 1900)