Ken Starr Quotes

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

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

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

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

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

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

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

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

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.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

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

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

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

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.

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.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

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.

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

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

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

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.

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.