Rick Scott Quotes

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

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.

I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.

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

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

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

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

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.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

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.

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.

I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

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

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.

I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

I would certainly look at a proposal for tuition-free community college for two years if the students kept a certain high grade-point average.

By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

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

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.

If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education.