Arthur Ashe Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

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

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.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to 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.

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

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

We now spend one in four of our higher education dollars sending students to these [profit making] colleges, and for that we reap a new underclass of highly indebted individuals most of whom do not manage to complete their degrees.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.