James E. Rogers Quotes

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

We need to incentivize states across our country to spend on higher education and ensure that we go back to allowing people to go to college tuition-free.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

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

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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

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

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city.

I want to go to college.

We should be encouraging - not penalizing - folks who want to pursue higher education.

More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to compete both nationally and globally and help drive economic growth.

I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.