Jodi Rell Quotes

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

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.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with 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.

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

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

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

... a threat to American education .... [Colleges would become] educational hobo jungles.

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

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.

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

Better educating our college students on the risks of high student debt and helping them to find alternatives to taking out student loans would help make the difference to their financial future.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

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

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

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

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

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

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.

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.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

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.