Lamar Alexander Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I went to college for about a year in California.

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.

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.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

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.

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

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 would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

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.

I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

I really want to go to college.

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.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

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

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.