Political Quotes

Robert Reich

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Jun 8, 2021

What, if instead of colonizing space, Bezos stopped exploiting working people on Earth?

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Mar 16, 2021

If we are looking for places to raise revenue, that the place to look is certainly at the top.

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Mar 16, 2021

The biggest story of America over the last 50 years has been really the fact that the bottom half... their situations have become so similar.

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Mar 16, 2021

We need to look at median and below, not at average, to get a real insight into what is happening to the American workforce.

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Mar 16, 2021

Their anger is justifiable. They have worked harder and harder, and they are getting less and less.

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Mar 16, 2021

We have learned that the deficit and the overall Federal debt is less of a threat than we thought it was.

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Dec 28, 2020

He's going to obstruct everything. And anything that is done with regard to COVID getting people through this, providing survival benefits, providing a stimulus that gets the economy back on track, anything that's done is going to have to…

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Dec 28, 2020

If you get two senators in Georgia who are Democrats so that the Senate flips and Kamala Harris actually becomes the deciding vote in the Senate, everything is different.

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Dec 28, 2020

I would point out to them if I had the opportunity that it was not that long ago that they found the money for an almost $2 trillion tax cuts for the rich and for big corporations, and they never -- they never blinked.

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Dec 17, 2020

That's exactly right, Ali. In fact, we have right now the worst unemployment crisis we have had in this country, probably since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Dec 17, 2020

We cannot simply wait until next summer, until COVID is behind us. We have got to enable people to live, right now, and live well and enable their families to live well because this is a national crisis.

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