177 Quotes by Robert B. Reich

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

So many Americans are angry and frustrated these days – vulnerable to loss of job and health care and home, without a shred of economic security – they’re easy prey for demagogues offering big lies. Yet the only antidote for big lies is big truth – told relentlessly and powerfully. You must be armed with it.

No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don’t have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.

We can help restore the common good by striving for it and showing others it’s worth the effort.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they’re going too far.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

The rich don’t create jobs. Jobs are created when the vast majority of Americans buy enough to make companies add capacity and hire more workers. But that won’t happen unless the vast majority has enough money to do the buying.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don’t need or deserve handouts.

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.