Quotes About Afford

Everyone doesn't need Medicare. The people who can afford to pay for their healthcare should pay.

When a company tells its employees that they can no longer afford such "generous benefits" and will have to cut them, it is a framing lie.

Note to future generations: In our time, are such things as credit cards. Company loans money, you pay back at high interest rate. Is nice for when you do not actually have money to do thing you want to do (for example, buy extravagant cheetah). You may say, safe in your future time: Wouldn't it be better to simply not do things you can't afford to do? Easy for you to say.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

Do you want to share a black cab?' Black cabs were an extravagance that Neve couldn't afford, not this far away from payday, but that wasn't the reason why she declined. 'No, thank you. I'm perfectly all right with catching the tube.' 'OK, tube it is,' Max agreed, because he was quite obviously emotionally tone deaf and couldn't sense the huge 'kindly bugger off' vibes that Neve was sure she was emitting.

In time, you'll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty's sake.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool?

But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

Father has good reasons on his side, since few people can afford to go through life listening to the birds sing, and the sooner the little boy starts his "education" the better.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.

I found that attitude remarkable. By this time the foreclosure epidemic had spread well beyond those who had knowingly purchased homes they could not afford.

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

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.