The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
Bob Filner

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
Judd Gregg

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.
Jim Ryun

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
Franz Beckenbauer

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
Jane Byrne

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Sam Snead

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.
Katie Price

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Dorothy Dix

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Dorothy Thompson

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.
Desmond Harrington

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
William Weld

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
Norman Granz

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
Larry Hagman

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!
Malcolm Wilson

Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.
Ernie Wise