Quotes by Cass Sunstein

About Cass Sunstein:

Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
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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

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

Cass Sunstein

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

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 inclinin...

Cass Sunstein

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything...

Cass Sunstein

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

Cass Sunstein

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

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.

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

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

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It's hard to get me out of the office.

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I am a huge Red Sox fan.

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I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

Cass Sunstein

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

Cass Sunstein

When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.

Cass Sunstein

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

Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.

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.

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If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameCass Sunstein
  • DescriptionAmerican legal scholar, writer, blogger
  • BornSeptember 21, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJurist; Political Scientist