Barack Obama Quotes

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

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

It is unconscionable that a rich country like the United States has made access to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle.

I do not feel that, in these important years, girls should be chosen for college purely on the basis of whether they can afford to pay for this opportunity. They should be there because of the potential value which they will bring to the Nation. If they have this added training, the Nation should be willing to put something toward their development.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

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.

More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.

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

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

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

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.