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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.

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

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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.

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

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

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

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

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

I worked to put myself through college.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

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

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

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.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

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.

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