Default Quotes

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.