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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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• The United States is a safe harbor.

  Robert Reich

  United States, Safe, Harbors

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

  Robert Reich

  Giving Up, Democracy, Might

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

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• One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

  Robert Reich

  Heart, Years, People

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

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• Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and then everyone working longer hours and using their homes for raising equity and generating more money through debt. The typical household basically staved off the day of reckoning.

  Robert Reich

  Home, Coping Mechanisms, Typical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

  Robert Reich

  Fighting, Bills, Politician

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, People, Want

  "American Experience". www.pbs.org.

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• The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

  Robert Reich

  America, Office, Presidency

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

  Robert Reich

  Answers, Inequality, Response

  "Robert Reich Sounds Off On How America Has Failed Its Students". Interview with Danny Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2015.

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• We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

  Robert Reich

  Teacher, Wall, Important

  "Robert Reich Sounds Off On How America Has Failed Its Students". Interview with Danny Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2015.

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• I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.

  Robert Reich

  Brother, Jobs, Lying

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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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• 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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• In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."

  Robert Reich

  Two, Stories, Journalism

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

  Robert Reich

  Mother, Years, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.

  Robert Reich

  School, Yale, Law

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• To be a skilled politician, you have to be genuine. To really make it work, you have to love people. You have to love the contact, you have to love the energy, you've gotta love inspiring people and getting their adulation in return. You can't separate what's genuine from what is necessary.

  Robert Reich

  People, Inspiring Love, Energy

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

  Robert Reich

  Ambition, People, Too Much

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have so that by the time the day ends, after 1,000 interactions, they're exhausted - and people like Bill Clinton who are extroverted - who get a little bit of energy from each interaction.

  Robert Reich

  People, Bills, Energy

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