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" America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs. "
Robert Reich
Direct
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America
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" The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. "
Robert Reich
Tea
Game
Perception
" A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. "
Robert Reich
Class
Working
Tax
" Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs. "
Robert Reich
Long
Work
Responsibility
" Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. "
Robert Reich
World
Belief
Language
" Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. "
Robert Reich
Justice
Try
Government
" 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
Strength
World
Losing
" 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. "
Robert Reich
Because
Tests
System
" 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. "
Robert Reich
City
Better
Others
" 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
How
Live
Believe
" Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all. "
Robert Reich
Institutions
Public
Available
" Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases. "
Robert Reich
Only
Everyone
Insurance
" 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
Workers
Always
Business
" America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations. "
Robert Reich
Earth
America
More
" 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
" Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive. "
Robert Reich
Unions
Political
People
" Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. "
Robert Reich
Only
Self-Esteem
Well-Being
" 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
Someone
Work
" 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
" Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. "
Robert Reich
Community
Children
Need
" If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws. "
Robert Reich
Through
Force
Laws
" As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment. "
Robert Reich
Routine
Digital
Workers
" It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far. "
Robert Reich
Saying
Far
Fight
" Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them. "
Robert Reich
Disease
Obesity
America
" Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. "
Robert Reich
Conservatives
Radical
Want
" Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite. "
Robert Reich
Money
Believe
Better
" Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger. "
Robert Reich
Anger
Top
Positive
" What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. "
Robert Reich
Society
Someone
Relationship
" 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. "
Robert Reich
Rest
Best
Doing
" There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. "
Robert Reich
Better
Morality
Job
" Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. "
Robert Reich
Civilized
Society
Standing