Mitt Romney Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

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.

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

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

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

I've always cared about education, and I worked with Senator Schumer on making several thousand dollars of college tuition tax deductible. That will help a lot of your middle class families make college more affordable.

I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.

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

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

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

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

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

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

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