Charles Vest Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

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.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

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

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

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.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

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.

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

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

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.

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.

I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn't be a student loan problem in America.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

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.