Wendy Davis Quotes

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

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.

Michelle and I—we’re where we are today only because scholarships and student loans gave us a shot at a great education.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

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

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

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

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 believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.

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

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

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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

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

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