Cindy McCain Quotes

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

The economics of life is against the family.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.