Timothy Noah Quotes

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

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.

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.

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.

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

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

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.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

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.

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

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

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

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

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

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

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.

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

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.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.