Robert Reich

“Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.”

“Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their spending will keep other Americans in jobs.”

“Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.”

“Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.”

“As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.”

“Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.”

“In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.”

“The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.”

“America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.”

“As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.”

“It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.”

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