Afford Quotes

Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama?

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.