Debt Ceiling Crisis

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

    It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.
    Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

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

    We can’t afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)