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Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.
— Robert Reich
Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.
— Robert Reich
Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.
— Robert Reich
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.
— Robert Reich
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
— Robert Reich
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
— Robert Reich
Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face,
— Robert Reich
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
— Robert Reich
It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.
— Robert Reich
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
— Robert Reich
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.
— Robert Reich
Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.
— Robert Reich
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
— Robert Reich
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
— Robert Reich
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
— Robert Reich
Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.
— Robert Reich
Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.
— Robert Reich
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
— Robert Reich
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
— Robert Reich
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
— Robert Reich
On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.
— Robert Reich
Centrism is bogus.
— Robert Reich
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
— Robert Reich
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
— Robert Reich
The United States is a safe harbor.
— Robert Reich
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
— Robert Reich
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
— Robert Reich
The simultaneous rise of both the working poor and non-working rich offers further evidence that earnings no longer correlate with effort.
— Robert B. Reich
You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
— Robert Reich
It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full employment system.
— Robert B. Reich
When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.
— Robert Reich
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
— Robert Reich
There is a deep desire to change the power structure.
— Robert Reich
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
— Robert Reich
Wall Street has blanketed America in a miasma of cynicism, and much of it is directed against Wall Street. The Street has only itself to blame.
— Robert B. Reich
What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.
— Robert Reich
Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.
— Robert Reich
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
— Robert Reich
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
— Robert Reich
In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.
— Robert Reich
The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.
— Robert Reich
You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.
— Robert Reich
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
— Robert Reich
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
— Robert Reich
Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
— Robert Reich
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
— Robert Reich
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
— Robert Reich
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
— Robert Reich
I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
— Robert Reich
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
— Robert Reich
Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.
— Robert Reich
In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."
— Robert Reich
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
— Robert Reich
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.
— Robert Reich
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
— Robert Reich
The Democratic Party is DEAD.
— Robert Reich
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
— Robert Reich
America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.
— Robert Reich
The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.
— Robert Reich
If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.
— Robert Reich
Public fear isn't something to be played with.
— Robert Reich