Robert Reich Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.”

“The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.”

“The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.”

“Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.”

“We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.”

“What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.”

“A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.”

“I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.”

“Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.”

“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.”