Quotes About Affordability

You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.

Reliable and affordable energy is the foundation of America's strength. Without it, our prosperity and security can fall outside our control.

I think it's important that we put forward legislation that's going to create jobs and strengthen the Georgia economy, which is why I've fought for rural broadband, both accessibility and affordability.

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.

We want people to be less stressed about having health care and being able to afford health care or at-home care for their elderly parents.

I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.

Just because you want to wear organic cotton doesn't mean you have to spend an arm and a leg.

It's a myth that all Scandinavians are happy, healthy, outdoors people. It's often more a matter of class whether you can afford to take time to take care of yourself.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

Your principles created the boundaries of your plan. You probably didn't consciously think about your principles regarding going out to dinner, but you thought within them: standards of food and service, affordability, convenience, and comfort all may have played a part. In any case, your purpose and principles were the defining impetus and boundaries of your planning.

Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99¢. (about Mcdonalds' apple pies)

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.

I say that Medicaid isn't the only vehicle to be able to purchase coverage or be able to have coverage.

If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks and the other street vendors, provided they meet certain sanitation standards. Many cities have already moved down this path, and people are not keeling over with salmonella.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

As the United States continues its quest to provide health care to more people in more affordable ways, there will be temptations to mandate treatments that are shown to be grossly equivalent, but less expensive. It will be important to maintain flexibility in such a system, so that we do not denigrate the art of medicine, which allows individuality in the sacred relationship between doctor and patient.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.