Financial Aid Quotes

• My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

  Claire Danes

  Beautiful, Math, Hands

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• The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

  Norm Coleman

  College, America, Needs

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• I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

  Charles M. Vest

  Income, Littles, Financial

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Destiny, Work Out

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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• In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  Eva Longoria

  College, Priorities, Pell Grants

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Parent, North Carolina

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• I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

  Teri Garr

  Government, People, Giving

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Support, Pressure

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Excellence, Incentives

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• It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Agreement, Shopping, Two

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, School, Government

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• f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

  Denis Hayes

  Taken, Technology, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.

  Zhang Xin

  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Believe, Destiny

  Address to joint session of Congress, 12 Mar. 1947

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• We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

  Mary Johnson

  College, Cost, Pace

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• Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost immune from criticism. Whether the Holocaust is real or not, the Jews clearly have a motive for fostering the idea that it occurred. Not only do they have a motive, but they have the means with the media domination they now hold.

  David Duke

  Real, Mean, Israel

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• The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Would Be, Rama

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