Valerie Jarrett Quotes

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

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.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

I couldn't afford to go to an out-of-state school.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.

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

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

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

We will cover the tuition costs of any Rhode Islander who is academically qualified, and in financial need.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

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 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.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.