Robert Reich Quotes
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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.
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a…
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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.
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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.
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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information,…
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Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on…
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When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
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The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the…
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I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees,…
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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
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Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.
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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…
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Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face,
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Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
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It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.
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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.
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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…
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You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
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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,…
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