Roy Romer Quotes

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

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.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.

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

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

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

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.

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.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

I'm not saying everyone must go to college. What I'm saying is that every student in Texas, no matter how poor, deserves options. They must be taught to believe they can and will graduate from high school with grades good enough to succeed in trade school, in community college, or in any university in America, including Harvard, Yale, UT or A&M.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

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 do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.