College Tuition Quotes:

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

- Elizabeth Warren

topic: Education, Hurt, College, Indebtedness, Students Today

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Veterans Succeed with Formal Education" by Dwayne Paro, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2017.

topic: Education, College, United States, College Tuition

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

- Fred Allen

topic: Graduation, Education, Laughter, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Education, Country, College, Scandinavia, College Tuition

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

topic: Education, Country, College, College Tuition

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

- Walter Isaacson

topic: College, Ideas, Helping, Going To College, College Tuition

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Marine, College, Talking, Off To College, College Freshmen

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, College, Judgment, College Days, College Freshmen

I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: College, Class, Ideas, Going To College, College Tuition

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

- Robert Reich

source: "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

topic: Education, Military, Adventure, Global Economy, Defense Spending

In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do you think will have the best educated work force and a competitive advantage? We must make tuition free in public colleges and universities and substantially reduce interest rates on student loans.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Education, Country, College, Global Economy, Student Loan

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

topic: College, Class, Debt Free, College Tuition

How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Education, Country, Military, Austria, Workforce

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

- Amandla Stenberg

topic: College, Tuition, Wonder, Minions, College Tuition

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

- Randy Pausch

source: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.178, Hachette UK

topic: Jobs, Book, College, College Tuition

I consider myself conscious of how women are treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist. Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat. Sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm not angry. I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females. I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.

- Pam Grier

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Believe, College, Bullshit, College Tuition

Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Home, Loss, College, Joblessness, Meltdowns

In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Country, College, America, Other Countries, College Tuition

Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as a right. Actually, it exists in every other major country on earth. You don't know that, because the media has forgotten to tell you that. But it does exist. In Denmark, because of union negotiations, the minimum wage is about $20 an hour. In Germany, you go to college tuition-free. In Finland, they actually pay you to go to college. Now, you don't know that in America because CBS forgot to tell you. But that is the reality.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: billmoyers.com

topic: Country, Night, Reality, College Tuition

I left school December of 1988. I was 21 at the time. And I hadn't quite finished my degree because I had done eight semesters, not understanding that I was going to have to finish the degree without the TAPP and Pell grant money that I had been using towards paying for much of my college tuition. And I didn't have any money. So I said, "Alright." And circumstances there were such that I thought it was maybe time to move on anyway.

- Jon Gordon

topic: Moving, School, College, Semester, Pell Grants

Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

- Steve Schmidt

topic: Home, Reality, College, College Tuition, Consumer Confidence