Student Loan Quotes

• 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.

  Mark Pocan

  Jobs, College, Risk

  "Congress Must Act to Prevent Student Loan Rates From Doubling" by Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Jobs, Worry, Car

  "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

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

  Jill Stein

  People, Debt, Exit

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Appreciation, Teacher, America

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• And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

  Clint Eastwood

  College, Thinking, Talking

  "Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC". www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

  Michelle Obama

  Badass, Believe, Bills

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Financial Hardship, Velcro

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

  Hank Johnson

  Stress, Cost, Rising

  "Republican Obstructionism Leads to Doubling Student Loan Rates" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, Moving, Home

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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

  Debbie Stabenow

  College, Needs, Cost

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

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Desperate

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

  Suze Orman

  Cost, Students, Loan

  "Suze Orman Warns Against Private Student Loans, Yet Teaches at University of Phoenix" by David Halperin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2014.

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• I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

  Kerry Washington

  College, Islands, Volunteer

  "2012 Democratic Convention: Stars Take Center Stage on Final Day" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2912.

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• Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

  Suze Orman

  Debt, Students, Loan

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• Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

  Bill Cosby

  Jobs, Funny Graduation, Pay

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Home, Car

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• Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Income, Needs, Debt

  Source: thetartan.org

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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• 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

  Education, Country, College

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• Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Effort

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.62, Penguin

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• If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt.

  Suze Orman

  Kids, Cards, Credit

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

  Anne Campbell

  Average, Years, Cost

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• Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Eight

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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