All Robert Reich Quotes
- A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and… Big
- 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… Barrier
- America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. America
- A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and… According
- It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far. Bullies
- On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. Always Win
- You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. Create
- Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. Bullies
- The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was… American
- 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… Benefits
- 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
- In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. Dangerous
- Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet. Always Reveal
- The United States is a safe harbor. Harbor
- Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor Bad
- 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… All
- 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,… Alliances
- 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,… Americans
- 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… Across
- 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… Buy
- I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to… Anywhere
- If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a… All
- The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't… All
- We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses. Capitalism
- If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,… All