Robert Reich Quotes

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

Politics, America, Nor

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
Robert Reich

Equality, Everyone, Fair

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

Crisis, Job, Public

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.
Robert Reich

Government, Business, Live

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.
Robert Reich

Work, Long, Someone

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

Gay, Important, Attention

Centrism is bogus.
Robert Reich

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

Free, Growth, Economic

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.
Robert Reich

Politics, Person, Wish

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.
Robert Reich

Government, Business, Private

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

Power, Democracy, Almost

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
Robert Reich

Percent, Production, Workers

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.
Robert Reich

Strength, Important, Moral

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
Robert Reich

Police, Radical, Bedrooms

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

Real, Last, Word

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

Business, Next, Hit

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

Memorial Day, Patriotism, True

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

Political, Create, Movement

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.
Robert Reich

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.
Robert Reich

Work, Together, Working

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Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: June 24, 1946

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