Pramila Jayapal Quotes

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

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.

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.

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Access to a college degree is critical.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

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).]