Student Loan Reform Quotes

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a car with interest rates half of that being paid for student loans? We must make higher education affordable for all. We must substantially lower interest rates on student loans. This must be a national priority.

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly.

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

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.

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'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.