Sovereign Debt Crisis

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

    The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    A good debt is not as good as no debt.
    Chinese proverb.

    A crisis unmasks everyone.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)