Political Quotes

“Absolutely. When I graduated from college, paying back my student loans was very, very difficult. And I will tell you that one of the things that I lucked into when I was still in my twenties was that I became a congressional aide. I worked for a Member of Congress. And there was a student loan program for young people that worked on Capitol Hill for them to be able to have some of their student loan debt repaid. Had it not been for that, I don't know what I would have done because the student debt was eating into my discretionary income. Again, we want young people to contribute to our economy. We want young people to go and buy that car that they couldn't afford in college. We want young people to start a family, buy a home. I mean, the American Dream is being able to start a family and buy that home and be able to raise your kids in that home and be able to provide for your family. But, unfortunately, more and more of our young people are saying, ``You know what. I am going to put off getting married. I am going to put off buying that home. I am going to put off putting money into our local economy. I am going to not buy so much for Christmas for my siblings and my parents and other people. I can't afford to because I have thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of student debt.'' We have to figure out some way to do something about this, Representative Swalwell, or we are going to have an entire generation of young people that just has absolutely nowhere to turn.”