Jill Stein Quotes

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.

We need to stop the vicious cycle of debt that is strangling us.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

The only thing wrong with student loans is that you have to pay them back.

We now spend one in four of our higher education dollars sending students to these [profit making] colleges, and for that we reap a new underclass of highly indebted individuals most of whom do not manage to complete their degrees.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.