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" 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. "
Robert Reich
Build
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Work
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" Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future. "
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" The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes. "
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" In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders. "
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" Public fear isn't something to be played with. "
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" The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. "
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" Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. "
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" Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. "
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Yes
" Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. "
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Right
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" Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums. "
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" There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. "
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Morality
Job
" We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide. "
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Place
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" Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. "
Robert Reich
Student
Tame
Nothing
" Patagonia, a large apparel manufacturer based in Ventura, California, has organized itself as a 'B-corporation.' That's a for-profit company whose articles of incorporation require it to take into account the interests of workers, the community, and the environment, as well as shareholders. "
Robert Reich
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Well
" Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another. "
Robert Reich
Money
Management
Lawyers
" We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? "
Robert Reich
Tax
Small
Class
" 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
Think
American
Politics
" You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring. "
Robert Reich
Inspire
Going
You
" The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. "
Robert Reich
Evidence
Sometimes
Nation
" Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. "
Robert Reich
Only
Self-Esteem
Well-Being
" The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized. "
Robert Reich
Economy
Back
Us
" 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. "
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Young
Sure
Rest
" In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business. "
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Good
Truth
Government
" Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States. "
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American
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" Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. "
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Others
" You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. "
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You
Political
" Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. "
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" In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. "
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" Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. "
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Money
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" Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. "
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Money
Effort
" The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference. "
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Equality
Liberal