Robert Reich quotes Best Collection

• You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: You Political Out Movement
• The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Free Product Rules Laws
• Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Escape Really How Detroit
• Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Whatever Nationality Corporation
• 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 our economy and our democracy.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Democracy Will Back Normal
• Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Police Want Radical Bedrooms
• Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: American More Sense Global
• Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Better Like American Create
• What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: America Hidden Price Tuition
• Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Big Strategy Doctors Small
• 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 jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: People New Better Lose
• The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: America Poor Job Middle Class
• 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 no deduction at all.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Rich Giving Tax Labor
• The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Mind Curious Insurance Politicians
• 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 in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Swimming Care Tennis Pay
• It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Fight Impossible Saying Far
• 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 hunger.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: People Day America Poverty
• Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: People Guilt Capacity Intent
• When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Everyone More Small Most
• You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: You Bad Way Place
• 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 measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: America Disease Through Obesity
• Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Stop Way Reason Even
• 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

  Topics: Real Last Silent Really
• During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Nation American Enough Three
• Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Better Like Right Just
• Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Limits Big Become How
• 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 leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Long Political Will Big
• The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Way Big Only Sure
• Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: Rich Always Will More
• Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.

  Robert Reich

  Topics: America Your Workers Employer