Tuition Quotes

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"I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That`s when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, `Come and meet Tom Cruise`".

- Renée Zellweger

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

- James Blunt

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.

- Jesse Ventura

How these next several months play out will determine whether or not these institutions make it or not. The most sensitive question is whether or not they can keep their students, because these institutions are so tuition-driven.

- David Warren

With tuition increases, students from the lower two-fifths of the income level are coming to university schools with less frequency. For this state to be competitive, we need our kids to get degrees.

- Doug Bradley

Our students just got hit with an 18.5 percent increase in tuition, and now gas prices are causing a crisis. We are going to lose students on the edge. They cannot deal with all these increases all at once.

- Richard Bernstein

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

- Mark Kennedy

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

There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of over there that our tuition and things do not cover.

- Katie Jones

We have three cats. It`s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

- Ron Reagan

The state could do better to fund community colleges at a higher rate and we wouldn`t have to charge as much for tuition. Things that encourage people to go to college would be helpful, but we`re not sure how much that`s going to help community college students.

- Bill Simpson

In-state tuition is a benefit for citizens. These students would be getting a taxpayer benefit at the expense of citizens.

- Susan Tully

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

- Alan Gummerson

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

- Alan Gummerson

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

- Alan Gummerson

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That`s grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

- Alda Piliszek

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

- Alice Lincoln

Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It`s very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you`re probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.

- Andre Parker

As tuition rises, the road to higher education in America gets steeper and harder to climb for lower and middle-income families.

- Andres Avila

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration`s policies force inflation.

- Andrew Fagan

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that`s it, we don`t take any money,

- Andy Lally

Tuition fees are the biggest change British universities have had in years,

- Angela Cummings

Before they were importers, but now with tuition fees, and given the exchange rates, the cost of studying here is not much more than staying at home.

- Angela Cummings

Tuition fees are the biggest change British universities have had in years. Before they were importers, but now with the tuition fees and given the exchange rates, the cost of studying here is not much more than staying at home.

- Angela Cummings

We don`t feel we have a choice. We are asking for a tuition increase for the (rising) cost of operating.

- Annabelle Ridge

When we set our tuition for next year, part of what we`re dealing with is kind of a catch-up on utility costs.

- Anthony Sampson

It`s no secret that it takes a lot of money to provide a good education. We`re raising money for computers, buses, vans, a bit of everything. Tuition is $6,000, but it costs about $8,000 to educate each student. That`s where the fundraising comes in.

- Arun Das

Physicians are no different than you or me. They have a mortgage payment. They have tuition payments, ... They are still here on their own good will, but they are not getting paid for it.

- Ashura Jenkins