Political Quotes

“Congressman Swalwell, thank you very much. I really appreciate your leadership on Future Forum and bringing up important issues like student debt. It is a real issue that so many of our young people struggle with when they graduate from college. In one of the articles that I was reading about student debt, a national magazine put some Instagram photos up of young people and the problems and the issues that they have with student debt. Some of the kids put up some really creative things. One of the graduating students, on their graduating hat, instead of ``Game of Thrones,'' it said ``Game of Loans.'' Another sign that I saw at one of the college graduations said, ``I will soon be joining millions of other young people that are graduating from college, and I will be consumed with thousands of dollars in debt.'' But while these Instagram photos are cute and funny and I am sure are a way for young people to take their minds off of what is going to be facing them in thousands of dollars of debt, we know that this is a very serious issue. Our young people that are graduating from college are putting off buying a house. They are putting off buying that new car. Those sorts of things play a role in how well our economy does. And I think, more importantly, you hear a lot of young people that are graduating from college saying that they are putting off starting a family.…”