Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Robert Bernard Reichis an American political commentator, professor, and author. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth24 June 1946
CountryUnited States of America
school cutting class
Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.
mother years four
I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
political enthusiasm energy
I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.
school law practice
Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.
people inspiring-love return
To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.
jobs thinking population
I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.
self years people
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
people economy fractions
If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.
people needs ifs
If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.
organization matter
Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.
growing-up people want
I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.
white next economics
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
cutting looks cost
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
country facts inequality
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.