Brian Schatz Quotes

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

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.

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.

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

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.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

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

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 want all tuition to stop growing.

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.

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

The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education.

I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.

At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.

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

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

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

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

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

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.