I remember my dad who coached football would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

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

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford Democratic leaders say they need more money which they intend to take from small business even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

A budget tells us what we can't afford but it doesn't keep us from buying it.