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
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
– Robert Reich
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
– Robert Reich
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
– Robert Reich
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
– Robert Reich
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.