Robert Reich Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.”

“We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.”

“When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.”

“When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.”

“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.”

“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 other advanced nations.”

“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.”

“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. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.”

“Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?”

“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.”