Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
We can't afford not to fully fund education.
To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
We can afford almost any mistake once.
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.