Elizabeth Warren Quotes

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

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

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.

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.

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

Michelle and I—we’re where we are today only because scholarships and student loans gave us a shot at a great education.

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.

When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

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

I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

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

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.

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

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

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

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

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.

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

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

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

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