All Robert Reich Quotes
- Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. Adjusted
- 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… Build
- 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… Ability
- 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… America
- Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed. Ashamed
- Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. Charitable
- 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… Advanced
- Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. Big
- America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs. Advanced
- 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… America
- 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… Atlantic
- Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. Average
- 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… America
- Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. Debts
- 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. All
- 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. Amenities
- As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever. Areas
- Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. Buys
- 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… American
- 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,… Active
- The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best -… Best
- In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other… Abandoned
- What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. Little
- 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… Competing
- Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is. Corporate