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Robert Reich Quotes

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

– Robert Reich

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

– Robert Reich

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

– Robert Reich

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they’d otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

– Robert Reich

Corporations aren’t people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

– 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

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

– Robert Reich

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they’re wrong. It’s just the opposite.

– Robert Reich

If we give up on politics, we’re done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

– Robert Reich

You might say those who can’t repay their student debts shouldn’t have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

– Robert Reich

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches – with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone – was once at the core of the American Dream.

– Robert Reich

If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.

– Robert Reich

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

– 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

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.

– Robert Reich

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

– Robert Reich

Centrism is bogus.

– Robert Reich

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.

– Robert Reich

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

– Robert Reich

Public fear isn’t something to be played with.

– Robert Reich

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations – clubs, associations, political parties, unions – to which politicians were responsive.

– Robert Reich

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.

– Robert Reich

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

– Robert Reich

A lot of attention has been going to social values – abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues – but economic values are equally important.

– 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

In reality, most of America’s poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

– Robert Reich

It’s not government’s business what people do in their private bedrooms.

– Robert Reich

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

– Robert Reich

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they’ll then spend – and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.

– Robert Reich

True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

– Robert Reich

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