Arne Duncan Quotes

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.

I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.

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

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

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

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.

We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.

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.

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

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.

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

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

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.

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

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

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.

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

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 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.

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

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.

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