Indebtedness Quotes
Without a further [dollar] decline, U.S. net foreign indebtedness and the federal debt burden threaten to become overwhelming.
- Jim O'Neill

The level of U.S. indebtedness to the rest of the world has more than doubled over the past five years to more than 25 percent of its GDP. These large imbalances are not sustainable over the longer run. No country, even one as big as the United States can keep increasing its external indebtedness as a share of its GDP. Ultimately, these imbalances will have to be resolved.
- Paul Jenkins

Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. Like a poor beggar suddenly halting before a magnificent storehouse of precious stones of dazzling brilliancy and splendor, China was overwhelmed, baffled and overjoyed. She begged and borrowed freely from this munificent giver. The first borrowings were chiefly from the religious life of India, in which China's indebtedness to India can never be fully told.
- Hu Shih

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