Mark Cuban Quotes

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

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

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

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

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

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

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

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.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

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.

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.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

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.

That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

Student loan debt is certainly not a fitting topic for a commencement speech, but it's an issue we must confront - not only for thousands of college graduates who deserve a fair shot, but also for our economy.

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

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

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

I don't think that we need to raise tuition on our students. I don't think that our students should be made to pay for the mistakes of our past politicians and the promises they made.

Kids should go to college, but they should go to the best school they can afford to get through with minimal or no debt. That might mean going to a community college or an inexpensive local state school. Whatever it takes.