Ilhan Omar Quotes

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

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.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

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

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

Who do you have coming to see you about the subsidies? Business people, no one else.

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.

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.

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

We can't leave small business owners to fend for themselves.

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.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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

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

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.

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

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.