Top 121 Quotes by Robert Reich

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

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

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.

Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.