When I look back at my role as labor secretary, I regret that I didn't fight harder. I mean, inside the meeting rooms in the old executive office building and the cabinet office, and even when I was talking in private to the president - President Clinton, I did try to argue my case, but I feel, in retrospect, I should have argued even more passionately. Maybe I even should have threatened to resign.
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Robert Reich
Economist; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997
United States · b. 1946
Politics and public life
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American economist who served as Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and has taught public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Saving Capitalism and The System.
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