Elizabeth Warren Quotes

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

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

Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

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

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

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

You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

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.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

People think that a label is going to get you to the top, and of course they're going to get you to the top. That's what they're good for. They're giving you this money but you have to pay all that back.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

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.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.