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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
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" 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. "
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" You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring. "
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Going
You
" You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. "
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Out
You
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" Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become. "
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How
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" 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. "
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" What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. "
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Society
Someone
Relationship
" 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. "
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World
Belief
Language
" 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. "
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How
Live
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" 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. "
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Create
Big
Political
" Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. "
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Civilized
Society
Standing
" The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. "
Robert Reich
Minimum Wage
Stronger
Change
" It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food. "
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Feed
Competing
Food
" 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. "
Robert Reich
Museums
Bridges
Good
" 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. "
Robert Reich
King
City
Support
" 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. "
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Because
Tests
System
" The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. "
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Middle
Cause
Poor
" The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big. "
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Only
Bank
Big
" You might say those who can't repay their student debts shouldn't have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become. "
Robert Reich
Bad
Way
Student
" Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all. "
Robert Reich
Tax
Over
Mortgage
" Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. "
Robert Reich
Only
Self-Esteem
Well-Being
" 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
" 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
" Centrism is bogus. "
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Bogus
" On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. "
Robert Reich
Republican
Playing
Win
" It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far. "
Robert Reich
Saying
Far
Fight
" Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. "
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Years
Take
Pay
" In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble. "
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People
America
Consequences
" Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. "
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Strategy
Clean
Company
" Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales. "
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Ripple
Money
Sales
" 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