Debbie Stabenow 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.

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.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

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

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

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

We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

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

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

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.

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

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

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

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

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.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

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

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.