Kevin Powers Quotes

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 are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- 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.

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

I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

For me, if I wasn't going to get a full scholarship to go to school, I was going to go to the Army or Navy so I could avoid debt.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

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

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

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 Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.

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.

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 to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

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

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

I think higher education is over-regulated.

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.

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