Robert Reich Quotes (33 Quotes)


    There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

    Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

    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.

    The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

    I don't believe that it will make any difference whether it's President George W. Bush or President Al Gore, ... The executive branch is a bit player in this economy.


    You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.


    I do think we're in a new era now in which job growth will remain sluggish for quite some time,

    Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

    is designed for the working poor and the poor. If we are not happy about the results, then the real question we ought to be asking ourselves is whether we should be changing the rules. Wal-Mart is an invitation to have that debate.

    It is harder to achieve a balanced life in the year 2001 than it was in the year 1991, ... Ten years of a very solid economy and good economic growth have also created an economy that is more stressful.

    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.

    The most important community for an individual will not necessarily be a company but a looser community of people with similar skills and social connections. Continually building up those skills and connections is what a career is today.

    In unity, there is strength, ... And if the AFL-CIO splits, the fear is at least that the entire labor union movement will be less powerful than it is today -- and that's not very powerful.

    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.

    There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

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

    Almost a third of these people were below the poverty line, ... would have to include a broad-based plan to revive business, industries and jobs.

    Bill Bradley wants to get democracy back for the American people. There has never been any question about his integrity or trustworthiness.

    The need is there, obviously, ... Baby Boomers are facing retirement in 15 years. We have to encourage savings.

    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.

    Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

    Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

    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.

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

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

    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.

    You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

    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.

    Employers have to understand that if they want to attract and keep good people, they've got to treat those people as whole people who have lives outside work,

    He is a little man, slightly stooped, balding, large nose, wide lips, wry smile. He wears thick glasses, ... Locked in the Cabinet.

    The gap between college graduates going into lucrative positions and those going into more normal positions is exploding. We've not seen a time in living memory when so many young people made so much money, and some peers are wondering what they have in common anymore.

    If Guess did not live up to its agreement, if it did not police its cutting and sewing shops to be sure that there were no sweatshops, that the laws were not violated, then it is coming off our Trendsetter list.


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