Barack Obama Quotes

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, the average student working on a bachelor’s degree from a for-profit college found herself in deeper debt ($32,700) than her counterpart attending a private [non-profit] college ($17,700).]

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

We now spend one in four of our higher education dollars sending students to these [profit making] colleges, and for that we reap a new underclass of highly indebted individuals most of whom do not manage to complete their degrees.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

As president I will push for national student loan forgiveness.

People think that a label is going to get you to the top, and of course they're going to get you to the top. That's what they're good for. They're giving you this money but you have to pay all that back.