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

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

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.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

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.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.