Brian Schatz Quotes

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

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

It's never too early to start thinking about tuition.

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

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.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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.

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'

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

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

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

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.

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

We will cover the tuition costs of any Rhode Islander who is academically qualified, and in financial need.