177 Quotes by Robert B. Reich

Education is not the only answer and it’s certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it’s a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family’s budget must know nothing about either.

In journalism, there are only two stories – “Oh, the wonder of it,” and “Oh, the shame of it.”

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.

Rand, Nozick, and their more modern incarnations are dangerously wrong. Not only does the common good exist, but it is essential for a society to function. Without voluntary adherence to a set of common notions about right and wrong, daily life would be insufferable. We would be living in a jungle where only the strongest, cleverest, and most wary could hope to survive. This would not be a society. It wouldn’t even be a civilization, because there would be no civility at its core.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

You can’t create a political movement out of pabulum.

You can’t inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen.