Jerry Buss Quotes

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

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

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

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

I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.

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

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

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.

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.

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

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.

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

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

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.

After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.

The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

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.

At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.