Quotes About Affordability

The commuter college I went to in 1970 now charges tuition of $ 10,312 a year for in-state students—and that's cheaper than most state schools. (Just so we're all on the same page: my $ 50 tuition from 1970 works out to about $ 300 in 2016 dollars.)

Make it so people can actually find good housing, can find good quality jobs and can afford to live - then we can weaken the climate of insecurity and fear that allow people to be exploited to increase division.

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

No one will use the new Internet if it's slow, costs money and doesn't scale.

I think many parents who are not on tax credits have to make difficult decisions about how many kids they can have and how many kids they can afford.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

California's university system is one of the premier higher education systems in the world, and we should require that non-resident students pay a premium to attend it. The revenue generated from these fees can be used to increase affordability and access for more Californians.

Many countries which are no longer able to afford their public health systems, which have made certain promises within their countries to purchase from free market or from other economies, are approaching us seeking help with the supply of generic drugs, which is opening a very big room of opportunity for us.

To tackle the prescription drug affordability crisis, we need to understand how high costs are directly impacting the people in our communities and in our neighborhoods - and we need to redouble our resolve to pass meaningful legislation that can lower prices and stimulate competition across the industry.

I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

You keep your rent low, which takes some of the pressure off. So when I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I don't mean, 'Give me more money.' I mean 'no.'

The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.

When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

Public housing's original purpose was to give shelter not to those too poor to afford it but to those who could afford decent housing but couldn't find it because none was available.

Gemma murmured. Even if she could afford Stella's

As I preach to my congregation every Sunday when it comes to staying afloat financially and living within your means, there is nothing easy about easy payments. Learn to say the words "I can't afford it." —Kirbyjon Caldwell

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.