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
signs split
All the signs are that they are going to split off,
college common gap graduates living lucrative memory normal peers people positions seen time wondering
The gap between college graduates going into lucrative positions and those going into more normal positions is exploding. We've not seen a time in living memory when so many young people made so much money, and some peers are wondering what they have in common anymore.
thinking people want
I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.
giving-up powerful self
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.
wall party leader
There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.
home coping-mechanisms entering
Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.
powerful media chill
There`s sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That`s where the money is.
two stories journalism
In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."
fighting bills politician
Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.
people
Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.
reform excess capitalism
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.
class britain
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
america office presidency
The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.
ambition people bills
Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.