Twenty years ago I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford Democratic leaders say they need more money which they intend to take from small business even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

A budget tells us what we can't afford but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best train them and back them. When errors occur give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm for its hospitality and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors hospitals and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors hospitals medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

As an American you have a right to good health care that is effective accessible and affordable that serves you from infancy through old age that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!