Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of the Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act. I want to first acknowledge my colleague Senator Brown of Ohio for his leadership. They have Ohio State, we have the University of Minnesota, and both of us have met with students from these States who have told us firsthand what they are experiencing every single day. I have talked to students at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State in Mankato, where my father-in-law taught for many years, and they have told me about their own situations, where they may have five siblings and there is absolutely no way their parents, both of whom are working, can afford to send their kids to college without loans. I have talked to a young woman in Mankato whose mom was helping with the tuition, and then suddenly her mom lost her job and she couldn't help anymore, parents who have gone out on disability who can no longer help anymore. We have to ask ourselves as a country, when those things happen, when you have a student who may be the first in their family to ever go to college, are we going to turn our back on them and say: No, we don't want you to go to college? Well, that is not going to work in our country. That is not going to work, because in Minnesota the numbers just came out, and up to 2018, of all the new jobs created, 70 percent are going to require some kind of postsecondary education.…”