James E. Rogers Quotes

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

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.

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

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

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.

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

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

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

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

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.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.