Evan Bayh Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education.

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.

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

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

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.

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.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

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.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

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.

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

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

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

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

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for 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.

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.