H. G. Bissinger Quotes

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

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

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

Too many states spend more money on prisons than on higher education.

Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.