Synonyms for national debt
na·tional debt

Princeton's WordNet

1. national debtnoun

   the debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   So when we're having this discussion, it's important to dispel some of those who say, well it's the government spending – no, it isn't, the government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary.

2. Hillary Clinton:

   If you look at the evidence, at the end of Bill Clinton's two terms, we had the longest peacetime expansion in American history with 22 million new jobs, a balanced budget and a surplus that would have paid off our national debt if it had not been rudely interrupted by the next administration.

3. William Cobbett:

   Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

4. Donald Trump:

   They haven't been hurt, the real cost, would be if we did nothing. The cost of doing nothing was killing us, as a country -- our national debt and so many other things.

5. Dimitrios Malisiovas:

   Since professional soccer started in 1979, the problem has always been there. Violence and corruption, it’s a bit like the Greek national debt: Too hard to pay down. Or like Hercules in ancient mythology trying to cut the head off the monster, only to see another appear. But that’s what we need to fix this problem, another Hercules. Someone who is fearless and determined.