Robert Reich

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.

Don't we expect that we have some responsibilities to one another? Now, when Joe Biden was talking today, he was really speaking to Mitch McConnell because Mitch McConnell... has decided, no, he does not want to agree with the Democrats to…

It is impossible to get a clear line out of this president with regard to what is good for the public, what is good for America, what's good for the United States. It's all about what's good for him.

Even today, we have a president who is belittling and diminishing the importance of using masks, diminishing and pooh-poohing the importance of maintaining social distance.

The duty to warn and the duty to tell the truth in terms of a public health crisis of the scale that we are now experiencing could not be greater.

we've got state and local governments that are running out of money at a very, very rapid clip. And a lot of these state and local governments are responsible for everything from health care to education, social services, and they will not…

Largely, Chris, it's because there are three separate economies. There's the economy of the billionaires. They're doing better than ever.

Donald Trump came to Washington promising to clean up the swamp of Washington, drain the swamp of Washington, and what we have instead is that in the White House, Donald Trump himself, Jared Kushner, we also have lobbyists all over…

the public cannot be confident that advice is going to be in the public's interest.

We've got to keep business and government separate. There's too much big money in politics as it is.

Jared Kushner to be out of the White House. Get him out. I agree with the Wall Street Journal.

We also have the issue of business people who have high roles in business, who are having business connections and doing business in the White House that looks like it's benefitting them in terms of their personal business life.