Jean Chatzky Quotes

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.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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

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

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

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.

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.

Michelle and I—we’re where we are today only because scholarships and student loans gave us a shot at a great education.

We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.

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

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

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

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.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

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.

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.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

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 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.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.