Ron DeSantis Quotes

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.

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.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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

The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

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.

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.

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

Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.

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

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

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

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

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

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.

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

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

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

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.