All Robert Reich Quotes
- 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… America
- 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. Abroad
- 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… All
- Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. Allow
- Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. Crucial
- 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
- Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal. Becoming
- 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… Another Era
- A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public… Any
- Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all. All
- 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… Better
- 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… Allowed
- Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become. Banks
- The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big. Bank
- It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food. Bite
- 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… Act
- We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work. Additional
- 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… Anemic
- Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. Amenities
- 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.… Came
- Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be -… Accountants
- Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. All
- When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. Employees
- Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases. Afford
- The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. Favor