ROBERT REICH

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

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

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.

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

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

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

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.

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.

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

Centrism is bogus.

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

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

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.