John Kline Quotes

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

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

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

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.

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

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

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

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.

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.

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

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

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

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.

We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

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

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

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.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

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.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.