Hillary Clinton Quotes

By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

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.

In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.

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.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

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.

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

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

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

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

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.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

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

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

It is unconscionable that a rich country like the United States has made access to higher education so difficult for those at the bottom and middle.

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

I do not feel that, in these important years, girls should be chosen for college purely on the basis of whether they can afford to pay for this opportunity. They should be there because of the potential value which they will bring to the Nation. If they have this added training, the Nation should be willing to put something toward their development.

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.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.