Hillary Clinton 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.

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

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.

I believe in affordable college, but I don't believe in free college, because every expert that I have talked to says, look, how will you ever control the costs.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

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

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.

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

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

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'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 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.

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

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

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

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

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

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

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.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

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.

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

Michelle and I—we’re where we are today only because scholarships and student loans gave us a shot at a great education.