Jesse Ventura Quotes

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

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.

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

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

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

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

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

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

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.

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

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

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

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.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

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.

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

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

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

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.

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