We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. – Jerry Brown
The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who’s an energy user is just going to disappear. – Jim Ratcliffe
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. – John Spratt
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose. – Johann Lamont
I’m not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I’m kind of a mess. – Mindy Kaling
Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can. – Kerry Stokes
The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It’s going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt. – Leonard Lance
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that’s what it’s called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it. – Kate Moss
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. – Joseph Lancaster
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions. – Mark Zuckerberg
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn’t like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well. – Robby Krieger
When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans. – Randy Neugebauer
Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders. – Richard Engel
How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester. – Obiageli Ezekwesili
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. – Roger Mudd
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. – Ralph Merkle
Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals. – Stewart Rahr
Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost. – Scott Brown
Trump has a pro-economic-growth tax plan, and we are sensitive to the cost of that plan. – Steve Mnuchin
Because of its shortcomings – driving range, cost, and recharging time – the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars. – Takeshi Uchiyamada