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

  Robert Reich

  People, Needs, Corporations

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• In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

  Robert Reich

  Doom And Gloom, May, Irrational

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• We can't know in advance what history is going to say, but I would be utterly amazed and surprised if this entire adventure, this entire Iraqi invasion from the beginning of its inception, were not judged to be an utter failure and a terrible, terrible thing for the world.

  Robert Reich

  Iraq, Would Be, World

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. August 22, 2007.

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• The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal.
  Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Goal, Growth

  "Why We Should Stop Obsessing About the Federal Budget Deficit headshot" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2012.

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• In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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• One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.

  Robert Reich

  Government, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Wish, Politics

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Growth, Problem

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• You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

  Robert Reich

  Political, Movement, Political Movements

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The United States is a safe harbor.

  Robert Reich

  United States, Safe, Harbors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.

  Robert Reich

  Growing, Rich, Economy

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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• If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

  Robert Reich

  Listening, Trying, Looks

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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

  Robert Reich

  Moving, People, Inspire

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Hands, Class

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

  Robert Reich

  Technology, Important, World

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't consider all the other things that are inflating far, far faster than food prices.

  Robert Reich

  Three, Needs, Lines

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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• On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

  Robert Reich

  Winning, Fields, Republican

  "Why Obama Should Learn the Lesson of 1936, not 1996". robertreich.org. November 1, 2010.

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• And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

  Robert Reich

  America, Government, House

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

  Robert Reich

  Agents, Want, Failing

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• When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

  Robert Reich

  War, President, Needs

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

  Robert Reich

  Fighting, Bully, Impossible

  "Why the Right-Wing Bullies Will Hold The Nation Hostage Again and Again". robertreich.org. April 9, 2011.

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• Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

  Robert Reich

  Police, Want, Bedroom

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

  Robert Reich

  Dog, Opposites, Academia

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• It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

  Robert Reich

  Government, People, Bedroom

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

  Robert Reich

  People, Economy, Fractions

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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