If there were no government-guaranteed student loans…

Taking out student loans for college is like indentured servitude. I'll be paying my way to freedom for the rest of my life.

— Anonymous

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken…

— Allen West

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

— Timothy Noah

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes,…

— Elizabeth Warren

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Thomas Frank

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

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

— Suze Orman

Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidizing for-profit colleges - specifically designed to pull…

— Matthew Desmond

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

— Monica Crowley

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog…

— Bill Bennett

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

— Hank Johnson

Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a…

— Bernie Sanders

Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married…

— Annie Lowrey

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy