239 Quotes by Robert Reich

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

I do think we're in a new era now in which job growth will remain sluggish for quite some time,

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

All the signs are that they are going to split off,

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.

As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

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.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.