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" 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. "

Robert Reich

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" It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food. "

" 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. "

" Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. "

" 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. "

" By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie. "

" True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. "

" As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big. "

" 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. "

" In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs. "

" Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed. "

" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "

Robert Reich

Give

Done

" Public fear isn't something to be played with. "

" You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring. "

" The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. "

" Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? "

" 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. "

" When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future. "

" I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. "

" The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. "

" 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. "

" When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. "

" Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government. "

" 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. "

" Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. "

" 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

" Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. "