Bob Inglis Quotes

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

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

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

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.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

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

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

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.

I believe that a university education should be free as it is unfair on people who cannot afford to pay for it.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don't leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you're not making enough money.

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.