Robert Reich Quotes

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Donald Trump has courageously taken on the entrenched special interests who sought to suppress the working people of this country and who have sought to deny them a livable wage.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Leaders of the business community ... have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old. .