Charles Vest Quotes

We have to do more to make it easier for parents to balance work and family. If you left college with a ton of loans, it's not enough just to make college more affordable. You need help right now with the debt you already have.

Financial Aid Office (FAO) administrators are scrambling to educate students on repaying loans, but a disparity in knowledge persists.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

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

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

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

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

We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

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

Some people say that we can’t afford to help our kids through school by keeping student loan interest rates low. But … the federal government offers far lower interest rates on loans, every single day–they just don’t do it for everyone. Right now, a big bank can get a loan through the Federal Reserve … at a rate of about 0.75%. … a student who is trying to get a loan to go to college will pay almost 7%. … the federal government is going to charge students interest rates that are nine times higher than the rates for the biggest banks–-the same banks that destroyed millions of jobs and nearly broke this economy. That isn’t right.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.