Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There`s sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That`s where the money is.
Robert Reich
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Reich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 24
Economist
Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Political Scientist
Politician
University Teacher
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Robert Bernard Reich
Effects
Media
Chilling
Sort
Profits
Powerful
Chill
Money
Establishment
Profit
Effect
Places
More quotes by Robert Reich
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?
Robert Reich
Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.
Robert Reich
The United States is a safe harbor.
Robert Reich
You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power.
Robert Reich
You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.
Robert Reich
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Robert Reich
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.
Robert Reich
The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.
Robert Reich
I, from the luxury of my laptop computer, can summon extraordinary bargains on everything I want, and I can also move my savings anywhere. This ability to choose more broadly and to switch more easily is the central fact of modern economic life.
Robert Reich
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.
Robert Reich
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
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
Robert Reich
We're now moving toward a radically different economy. You absolutely can't have a distribution oligopoly. The new oligopolies - and I think there will be new oligopolies - will be oligopolies of trustworthiness. Microsoft, Amazon, Schwab, and other brands will dominate psychic space, not shelf space.
Robert Reich
I knew Hillary Clinton from undergraduate days and was enormously impressed with her. She was a terrific energy and enthusiasm, and a great organizer. And I knew that she was going to have a political future.
Robert Reich
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Robert Reich
In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.
Robert Reich
If you're going to be a great guide to what's great for consumers, and, indirectly, for investors, you've got to be very careful about who you contract with and what you're offering.
Robert Reich
Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Robert Reich
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.
Robert Reich
When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.
Robert Reich