Cass Sunstein Quotes

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• Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out…
• I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
• Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
• Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which…
• The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
• Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment…
• A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.
• There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
• There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft
• Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
• Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts…
• Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current…
• A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
• I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation,…
• Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…
• There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and…
• It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through…
• There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
• We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time…
• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

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