Robert Reich Quotes

• Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

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  Tags in Free, Growth, Economic

• 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.

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  Tags in Back, Someone, Over

• Centrism is bogus.

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  Tags in Bogus

• A lot of attention has been going to social values – abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues – but economic values are equally important.

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  Tags in Important, Attention, Gay

• 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.

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  Tags in Person, Wish, Come

• Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven’t risen in 30 years, adjusted

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  Tags in Percent, Workers

• It’s not government’s business what people do in their private bedrooms.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Government

• Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

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  Tags in Police, Radical

• Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strength, Important

• Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

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  Topics in Democracy, Power

• True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Memorial Day, True

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

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  Tags in Political, Creative, Movement

• There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Hit

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Last

• 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.

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  Tags in Believe, Live

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Working

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

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Crisis

• You can’t inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspire

• The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.

  Robert Reich

  Topics in Politics

Robert Reich (19)

Birth:	24th June, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Politician, Professor

About

Robert Bernard Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

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