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
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Bill Bradley wants to get democracy back for the American people. There has never been any question about his integrity or trustworthiness.
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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.
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If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.
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I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.
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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.
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If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.
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Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.
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The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.
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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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The need is there, obviously, ... Baby Boomers are facing retirement in 15 years. We have to encourage savings.
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It turns out that the labor market is far more flexible than anyone assumed,
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Employers have to understand that if they want to attract and keep good people, they've got to treat those people as whole people who have lives outside work,
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Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.
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The most important community for an individual will not necessarily be a company but a looser community of people with similar skills and social connections. Continually building up those skills and connections is what a career is today.