Lamar Alexander actually said...

"So then why do you need this?"

"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..."

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

"I think we've perpetuated this fiction that you can't afford to go to college when, in fact, you can."