Sovereign Debt Crisis

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

    “Every new sovereign brings his own ministers.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Man’s pity for himself, or for his son,
    Always premising that said son at college
    Has not contracted much more debt than knowledge.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That’s what will last after this flurry on family values.”
    —Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)