Cass Sunstein famous quotes

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Believe #Gun #Hunting

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Thinking #People #Human Nature

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft
-- Cass Sunstein

#Pride #Thinking #Crafts

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.
-- Cass Sunstein

#People #Done #Manipulate

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 about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action,’
-- Cass Sunstein

#Real #Space #Government

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 law.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Animal #Law #Suits

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Communication #Government #Self

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, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Views #Law #Issues

Sometimes, the word ‘voluntary’ is a little complicated…
-- Cass Sunstein

#Littles #Sometimes #Complicated

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
-- Cass Sunstein

#Requirements #Protection #Equal

Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Opportunity #Choices #Different

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

#Blessed #Yale #Law

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 all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Views #Decision #Collaboration

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Moments #Distinction #Rejects

Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Real #Careers #Democracy

This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Judging #Majority #Opinion

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.
-- Cass Sunstein

#War #Technology #Issues

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Light #Government #Suffering

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Information #Internet #Spread

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Sex #Thinking #Unions

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Law #Diversity #Political

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Race #Matter #Segregation

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 now.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Sports #Fun #Hunting

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Liberty #Celebrate #Should

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 climate policy than through direct foreign aid.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Climate #Aids #Accomplished

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 predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him,
-- Cass Sunstein

#Believe #Commitment #Law

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
-- Cass Sunstein

#People #Sides #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 are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Government #World #Want

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Moving #People #Cash

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 protects an individual right to bear arms.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Gun #Views #Second Amendment

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.
-- Cass Sunstein

#People #Welfare #Program