“Republican leadership has endless amounts of money for bloated military budgets and tax breaks for billionaires. But when working families need help, oh my God, we can’t afford it!”

The price of failure is just too great to imagine.

We must reduce the military budget by 10% and use that $74 billion in savings to invest in our people.

A lot of powerful people and corporations are counting on you to not make your voice heard. Do not give them that satisfaction.

It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

Young People Can Swing the Election.

Congress must move forward vigorously and help the American people.

The Republicans must get their act together and protect working families.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Young people have the power to change this country and the world.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

Many families are struggling, at least there will be direct payments for every working class adult and their children, and an extension of unemployment benefits.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

This level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

I can’t afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

I think that’s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family – a statement – and you can afford it, then that’s a noble project.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can’t afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

I’m like, ‘Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I’m OK with who I am and I’m happy with who I am?’

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.

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