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Robert Reich Quotes

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses Picture Quote #1

Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen Picture Quote #1

Britain’s is traditionally a rigid class society Picture Quote #1

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything Picture Quote #1

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 fundamental difference Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods Picture Quote #1

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven’t risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others Picture Quote #1

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family’s budget must know nothing about either Picture Quote #1

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 powerful Picture Quote #1

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 the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage Picture Quote #1

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 tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? Picture Quote #1

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 that is barely growing at all Picture Quote #1

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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, like just one or two, who would be my protectors Picture Quote #1

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 listening to and the situation gets worse and worse Picture Quote #1

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 capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt Picture Quote #1

$If consumers don’t have the wherewithal to spend because all the money’s going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow Picture Quote #1$

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 consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices Picture Quote #1

I’m 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality Picture Quote #1

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One thing I’ve learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it’s both the brain and the heart Picture Quote #1

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year Picture Quote #1

To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you’ve gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can’t separate what’s genuine from what is necessary Picture Quote #1

I don’t think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all Picture Quote #1

If leadership is about anything, it’s about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don’t need that. They’re already there Picture Quote #1

Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you’re not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You’re basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich Picture Quote #1

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We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses (Robert Reich Quotes) Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen (Robert Reich Quotes) Britain’s is traditionally a rigid class society (Robert Reich Quotes) If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 fundamental difference (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 (Robert Reich Quotes) Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods (Robert Reich Quotes) Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven’t risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 (Robert Reich Quotes) There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 (Robert Reich Quotes) 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, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others (Robert Reich Quotes) Those who analogize the federal budget to a family’s budget must know nothing about either (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 powerful (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 that is barely growing at all (Robert Reich Quotes) 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, like just one or two, who would be my protectors (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 listening to and the situation gets worse and worse (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow (Robert Reich Quotes) 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 consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices (Robert Reich Quotes) I’m 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality (Robert Reich Quotes) One thing I’ve learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it’s both the brain and the heart (Robert Reich Quotes) I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year (Robert Reich Quotes) To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you’ve gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can’t separate what’s genuine from what is necessary (Robert Reich Quotes) I don’t think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all (Robert Reich Quotes) If leadership is about anything, it’s about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don’t need that. They’re already there (Robert Reich Quotes) Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you’re not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You’re basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich (Robert Reich Quotes)

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