Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

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.

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.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, the average student working on a bachelor’s degree from a for-profit college found herself in deeper debt ($32,700) than her counterpart attending a private [non-profit] college ($17,700).]

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

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.

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

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.

Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

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.

Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.

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

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

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.

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

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

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

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

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