Hillary Clinton Quotes

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

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

One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education, making public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America earning less than 125,000 bucks. Didn't go as far as I wanted. But that's 83 percent of the population in this country.

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.

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.

As president I will push for national student loan forgiveness.

The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education.

I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.

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'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

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.

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

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

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

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

Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

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.

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

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

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.

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