John Kline Quotes

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

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.

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.

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

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don't have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

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

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.

States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

Some people say that we can’t afford to help our kids through school by keeping student loan interest rates low. But … the federal government offers far lower interest rates on loans, every single day–they just don’t do it for everyone. Right now, a big bank can get a loan through the Federal Reserve … at a rate of about 0.75%. … a student who is trying to get a loan to go to college will pay almost 7%. … the federal government is going to charge students interest rates that are nine times higher than the rates for the biggest banks–-the same banks that destroyed millions of jobs and nearly broke this economy. That isn’t right.

As quickly as you start spending Federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

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

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

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

I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years.

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

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