Bobby Scott Quotes

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.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

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

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

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.

We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.

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.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

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

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.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

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

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

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

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.

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

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

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.