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Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed. -- Robert Reich
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The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. -- Robert Reich
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To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary. -- Robert Reich
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One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower. -- Robert Reich
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We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s. -- Robert Reich
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The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market. -- Robert Reich
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It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far. -- Robert Reich
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As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care. -- Robert Reich
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If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse. -- Robert Reich
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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
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A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. -- Robert Reich
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Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them. -- Robert Reich
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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
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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
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There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is. -- Robert Reich
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It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent. -- Robert Reich
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We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? -- Robert Reich
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Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich. -- Robert Reich
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The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. -- Robert Reich
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As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business. -- Robert Reich
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Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. -- Robert Reich
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The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them. -- Robert Reich
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It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food. -- Robert Reich
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I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. -- Robert Reich
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We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. -- Robert Reich
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The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. -- Robert Reich
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Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations. -- Robert Reich
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The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich. -- Robert Reich
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A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. -- Robert Reich
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America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations. -- Robert Reich
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The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. -- Robert Reich
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Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?" -- Robert Reich
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The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top. -- Robert Reich
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No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt. -- Robert Reich
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Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs. -- Robert Reich
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Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
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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
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There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. -- Robert Reich
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I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. -- Robert Reich
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In a world where routine production is footloose ... competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away. -- Robert Reich
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When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need. -- Robert Reich
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There is a deep desire to change the power structure. -- Robert Reich
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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
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Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. -- Robert Reich
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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
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The United States is a safe harbor. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. -- Robert Reich
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If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail. -- Robert Reich
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Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. -- Robert Reich
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A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. -- Robert Reich
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You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring. -- Robert Reich
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I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist. -- Robert Reich
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During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced. -- Robert Reich
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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
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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. -- Robert Reich
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When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. -- Robert Reich
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I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better. -- Robert Reich
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When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors. -- Robert Reich
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Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either. -- Robert Reich
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The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal.
Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both. -- Robert Reich
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The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street. -- Robert Reich
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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
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I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year. -- Robert Reich
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America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs. -- Robert Reich
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I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality. -- Robert Reich
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The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy. -- Robert Reich
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We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs. -- Robert Reich
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Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. -- Robert Reich
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Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. -- Robert Reich
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Public fear isn't something to be played with. -- Robert Reich
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Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs. -- Robert Reich
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Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts. -- Robert Reich
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Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States. -- Robert Reich
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Centrism is bogus. -- Robert Reich
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I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves. -- Robert Reich
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As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever. -- Robert Reich
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What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. -- Robert Reich
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The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992) -- Robert Reich
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Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength. -- Robert Reich
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Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales. -- Robert Reich
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In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business. -- Robert Reich
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On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. -- Robert Reich
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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs. -- Robert Reich
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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
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Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period. -- Robert Reich
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The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes. -- Robert Reich
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If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything. -- Robert Reich
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Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger. -- Robert Reich
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Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. -- Robert Reich
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America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. -- Robert Reich
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In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. -- Robert Reich
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Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. -- Robert Reich
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We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid. -- Robert Reich
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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
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Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal. -- Robert Reich
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Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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The only sure way to stop excessive risk taking on Wall Street so you don't risk losing your job, or your savings or your home, is to put an end to the excessive economic and political power of Wall Street by busting up the big banks. -- Robert Reich
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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
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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
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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. -- Robert Reich
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Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society. -- Robert Reich
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What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. -- Robert Reich
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We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work. -- Robert Reich
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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
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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
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It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. -- Robert Reich
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So why don't nurses do home visits to Americans with acute conditions? Hospitals aren't paid for it. -- Robert Reich
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. -- Robert Reich
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The Democratic Party is DEAD. -- Robert Reich
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Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. -- Robert Reich
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To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both our economy and our democracy. -- Robert Reich
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Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. -- Robert Reich
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Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. -- Robert Reich
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No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident. -- Robert Reich
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Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much. -- Robert Reich
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We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if American invasion to Iraq from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world. -- Robert Reich
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Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics. -- Robert Reich
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If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. -- Robert Reich
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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. -- Robert Reich
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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
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The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big. -- Robert Reich
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As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big. -- Robert Reich
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Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. -- Robert Reich
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Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders. -- Robert Reich
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In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it." -- Robert Reich
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I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future. -- Robert Reich
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We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong. -- Robert Reich
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Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. -- Robert Reich
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The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. -- Robert Reich
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Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
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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
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Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money. -- Robert Reich
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Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. -- Robert Reich
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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
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I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor. -- Robert Reich
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Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? -- Robert Reich
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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. -- Robert Reich
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Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. -- Robert Reich
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Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society. -- Robert Reich
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Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you. -- Robert Reich
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Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government. -- Robert Reich
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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. -- Robert Reich
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Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all. -- Robert Reich
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One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart. -- Robert Reich
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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. -- Robert Reich
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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
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In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders. -- Robert Reich
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Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become. -- Robert Reich
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Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor -- Robert Reich
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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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Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship. -- Robert Reich
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Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster. -- Robert Reich
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America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish. -- Robert Reich
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Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. -- Robert Reich
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The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth. -- Robert Reich
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Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face, -- Robert Reich
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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
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Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers. -- Robert Reich
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News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage. -- Robert Reich
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I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence. -- Robert Reich
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A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. -- Robert Reich
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When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. -- Robert Reich
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Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. -- Robert Reich
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You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. -- Robert Reich
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Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. -- Robert Reich
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The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all. -- Robert Reich
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Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums. -- Robert Reich
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Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. -- Robert Reich
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Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States. -- Robert Reich
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. -- Robert Reich
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It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms. -- Robert Reich
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Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is. -- Robert Reich
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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
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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
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Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future. -- Robert Reich
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Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. -- Robert Reich
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Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases. -- Robert Reich
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If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there. -- Robert Reich