239 Quotes by Robert Reich

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.

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.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that`s just gotten completely out of control and you`ve seen it in politics.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Almost a third of these people were below the poverty line, ... would have to include a broad-based plan to revive business, industries and jobs.