For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
Paul Martin

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Giraldus Cambrensis

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
Charles Vest

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
John Leguizamo

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
Constance Baker Motley

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
Tim Murphy

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.
Parker Stevenson

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
Lance Burton

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
James Ellroy

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

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

I can afford to say what I wish.
Paul Getty

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
Cecil Beaton

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George Burns

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Louis Agassiz

I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.
Melita Norwood