Some caused me to take a second look. Overall though, it seems he's got some good points of view. ~ pinto
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not. President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.”
― Robert B. Reich
“The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger economy could and should have been able to provide them. the American economy had been growing briskly, and America's middle class naturally expected to share in that growth. But it didn't. A larger and larger portion of the economy's winnings had gone to people at the top.”
― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
“It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.”
― Robert B. Reich
“It is still possible to find people who believe that government policy did not end the Great Depression and undergird the Great Prosperity, just as it is possible to uncover people who do not believe in evolution.”
― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
“Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay”
― Robert B. Reich
“Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults—“its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.”
― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if we understood the social consequences of our purchases or investments and if we knew all other consumers and investors would join us in forbearing from certain great deals whose social consequence were abhorrent to us.”
― Robert B. Reich
“Being rich now means having enough money that you don’t have to encounter anyone who isn’t.”
― Robert B. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43932.Robert_B_Reich
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