Student Loan Quotes - Page 2

• We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.

  Bernie Sanders

  Car, Parent, Pay

  "Sanders Calls for Higher Ed Funding Revolution". www.sanders.senate.gov. February 17, 2015.

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  Gail Collins

  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Home, Average

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

  Ray Romano

  Students, Get Money, Loan

  Interview with Joel Stein, content.time.com. June 06, 1999.

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• Without the jobs being available to enable them to repay that [student-loan] debt in the course of their financial lifetimes, basically.We maintain that, yes, that's a significant chunk of change - it's $1.3 trillion - but what investment is more worth making than in a generation that does not have a future?

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Doe, Generations

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

  James Dyson

  Government, Engineering, Long

  "Scrap tuition fees for engineering students, urges James Dyson" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those who have very low interest rates (2-2.5 percent) on student loans and know everything is secure, great.

  Suze Orman

  Debt, Pay, Students

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

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• If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.

  Megan McArdle

  Education, Money, Jobs

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• You're thinking to yourself, 'How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I'm never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?' Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013.  I want you to think back to all of these things you said to yourself, 'I can't do that. I can't palpate a cow. And what's worse, palpating a cow or taking semen from a horse?' But you did it, didn't you?

  Suze Orman

  Wisdom, Horse, Work

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

  Jesse Jackson

  Home, Jail, People

  "Rev. Jackson opens up about son" by Katie Glueck, www.politico.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Real, College, People

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• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Jobs, College, Three

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• Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

  Ted Strickland

  Struggle, Worry, Pay

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Debt, Want

  "State of the Union 2015: Full transcript". edition.cnn.com. January 21, 2015.

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• When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

  Chandra Wilson

  School, Winning, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Agreement, Shopping, Two

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

  Michael Hudson

  Debt, Wipe, Fresh Start

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• So we are in for years of debt deflation. That means that people have to pay so much debt service for mortgages, credit cards, student loans, bank loans and other obligations
  that they have less to spend on goods and services. So markets shrink. New investment and employment fall off, and the economy is falls into a downward spiral.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Mean, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Just like a house is worth whatever a bank's going to lend against it, an education is worth whatever the bank is going to lend the student to pay the university. So the availability of government-guaranteed student loans has vastly inflated the cost of education, just like it's inflated the cost of housing.

  Michael Hudson

  Government, Availability, House

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In housing you have jingle mail and you can walk away and leave the bank holding the bag. In the case of student loans, the debt follows you through life, and the banks or government will turn it over to collection agencies that are not very nice people and can do all sorts of harassing things to you. It's becoming a nightmare.

  Michael Hudson

  Nice, Agency, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are falling, mainly because consumers have to pay most of their wages to the FIRE sector for rent or mortgage payments, student loans, bank and credit card debt, plus over 15 percent FICA wage withholding for Social Security and Medicare actually, to enable the government to cut taxes on the higher income brackets, as well income and sales taxes.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Cutting, Students

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Three, Cards

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

  Jill Stein

  Generations, Debt, Students

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.

  Kalle Lasn

  People, House, Leader

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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