This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
James Forrestal

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
Jeff Bingaman

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

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

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
Bobby Scott

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt

We can afford almost any mistake once.
Joe E. Lewis

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
Robert Jackson

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.
Donna Shalala

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
Graeme Murphy

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
John Blair

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.
Saku Koivu

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.
Peter King

We're a new show. We can't afford instant replay.
Emeril Lagasse