America Quote by Dick Durbin

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling…

— Dick Durbin

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

— John Layfield

Unlike public universities and private, not-for-profit colleges, for-profit schools are owned by revenue-seeking businesses often more intent on boosting their bottom line than educating…

— Lisa Madigan

Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer…

— Lisa Madigan

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects…

— Alex Tabarrok

I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.

— Camille Perri

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of…

— Bill McKibben

We're holding colleges accountable. We're introducing gainful employment rules, which mean that you have to show the return on investment that students are getting…

— Miguel Cardona

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in…

— Anonymous

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have…

— Arthur Capper

There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive…

— Azim Premji