We want them to try to get an education. We don`t want to just grind up their bones when they try and can`t manage the debt.

So now look at the position they`re in. Because they weren`t born into a family that could pay for it, but they tried, they now earn what a high school grad earns, but they`re trying to manage college level debt.

That is how we have gotten to a world where 43 million Americans, collectively, owe $1.7 trillion in student debt.

My view is, bring it on. We need to be ready to fight them back.

The United States government is one of the most aggressive debt collectors when it comes to student loan debt. You know, you can go into bankruptcy and you could deal with your credit card debt. You could deal with your car loan, you could…

Mr. President, for more than 50 years, the Title X Family Planning Program has provided birth control, cancer screenings, HIV tests, and other essential healthcare services to millions of Americans. Now, this program primarily serves…

Are we going to invest in people who are trying to get an education or not?

Right now what we’ve got in tech is we don’t have that kind of competition. Rules of the road could help facilitate that kind of competition and frankly break the stranglehold of someone like Elon Musk coming in and just owning the whole…

Are we going to make these decisions as a democracy, or is this going to be Elon Musk all by himself off in a room, a bazillionaire who just plays by his own set of rules? That’s really what’s at stake here.

Canceled $50,000 of student loan debt. That’s step one, then we need to deal with how we’re going to pay for college going forward for the rest of our kids.

The problem is one of power, and concentrated power. It’s about one person making all of the decisions about how tens of millions of people will have an opportunity to communicate with each other.