Ana Kasparian Quotes

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.

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

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

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 loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

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.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

I had loans in law school.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.

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.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

The burden of student loan debt weighs heavily on both students and families across New Jersey.

I finished my higher education deeply in debt and with seven years of bad credit in my future.

We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don't leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you're not making enough money.

Students are up to their eyeballs in loans, and it's going to get even worse. It's going to be hideous, actually. Students are going to be saddled for life. It's going to put a lot of people off going to college, which is a shame.

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

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

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

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

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.