Tulsi Gabbard Quotes

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

I can't afford to send three kids to college and support four more on a Government salary.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

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.

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

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

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

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

Unemployment is painful.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Gone are the days in America where we're able to graduate from High School and perhaps eventually get a job that pays $100,000, that barrier has been put up. If you want to work at McDonald's, where is your degree?

If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with.

If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.