Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Isn't it a fact that with some flexibility...they're saying to them, 'You can afford to go to community college.'"

"But most people who are eligible for a Pell grant end up getting the whole amount, don't they?"

"So we're talking about a large number."

"I think turning the fiction around by simplifying it and maybe even working with States to encourage the idea of free community college, if you need for it to be free, would do a lot to increase the n..."