Ken Cuccinelli Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 can't afford to send three kids to college and support four more on a Government salary.

Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

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.

I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

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.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

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

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.

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

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

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

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

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

I want all tuition to stop growing.

The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.