Robert Reich Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Reich
Robert Reich Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it.
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.