Cass Sunstein Quotes

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Cass Sunstein

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : September 21, 1954

Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.

Cass Sunstein

If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration.

Cass Sunstein

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.

Cass Sunstein

I am a huge Red Sox fan.

Cass Sunstein

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.

Cass Sunstein

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

Cass Sunstein

A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'

Cass Sunstein

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Cass Sunstein

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Cass Sunstein

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

Cass Sunstein

No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.

Cass Sunstein