Sherrod Brown Quotes

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

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

At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.

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

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

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

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

I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

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.

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.

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

I want all tuition to stop growing.

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.

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.