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Cass Sunstein
Cass Sunstein
American Lawyer
Born: Sep 21, 1954
Government Law Own People Think You
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I confess I'm a big fan of Taylor Swift. Cass Sunstein
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When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme. Cass Sunstein
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In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention. Cass Sunstein
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Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.' Cass Sunstein
You People Free Trouble Lesson Kind Find Some Crossroads Wherever Themselves Choose Wars Series Star Star Wars Deepest
I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics. Cass Sunstein
Love Economics Collection Some Inventive Rational Most Real His Behavioral Essays Interesting Richard Foundation
Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right. Cass Sunstein
People Anxiety Will Miserable Constant Having Know Go Accountable Mean Held Productive Right Things
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
History Respect Rights People Lost Own Our Sight Ourselves Take No-One Arm Should Away Right
Today's uses of the Second Amendment may invoke James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, but they have a lot more to do with interest-group politics. Cass Sunstein
Today Politics Alexander Madison More Invoke Hamilton Lot Amendment May James Uses Second Second Amendment
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
Self-Defense Believe Possess Hunting Guns Strongly Both Purposes Individual Amendment Creates Use Right Second Second Amendment
In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator. Cass Sunstein
Government You Administrator Writer
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out. Cass Sunstein
Financial College Design Aid Financial Aid Out One Thing Students Attend Make Another Forms Available Fill Actually Thing
At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office. Cass Sunstein
You Simple Ought Record Seems Put Support Oval Oval Office Since Economy Democrat Conclusion Least Historical Office American American Economy Want Grow
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today. Cass Sunstein
Today Politics Problem Envy Progressivism Top Percent Facing Outrage Animated Idea Nevertheless Principal Trace Fairness Least Were America Billionaires Millionaires
It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.' Cass Sunstein
Learning People Impossible Mirror Own Other Side Presidential Presidential Campaign Easy Tempting Only Ideal Because Makes Understand Opinions Campaign Listen Dismiss Fortify
Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations. Cass Sunstein
Human Being Matters Different Kinds Every Kinds Diverse Mirrors True Identities Up Greatly Same Situations Human Nations Being Different Hold Which Social
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 Best You Problem World Problems Solved Indispensable Through Most Courtesy Privately Handled Norms Want Which Social
The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter. Cass Sunstein
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As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. Cass Sunstein
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I am a huge Red Sox fan. Cass Sunstein
Red Red Sox Am Huge Sox Fan
What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convictions, their tendency to outrage, and their insistence that the United States needs to embark on a whole new path. Cass Sunstein
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The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise. Cass Sunstein
Legal Political Enterprise More Fact Than Getting Essentially In Fact Process Far Regulations Technical Publicly Right
Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another. Cass Sunstein
People Internet Active Medium Others Respects Television Web Web Sites Exchanging Allowing Individuals Ideas Another Without Passive Contrast Discussion Sites Information Really Engage Use Many Many Respects Even Groups Receive
I think President Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously, not everybody thinks that. Cass Sunstein
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By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves. Cass Sunstein
Hope Faith Forgiveness Best Parents Power Goodness Innocence Out Boundless Redeem Sheer Selves Children Capacity Bringing
There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice. Cass Sunstein
Environmental Health Freedom Quality Safety Political Will Whatever Every Think Numerous Those Security Economic Economic Security Highly Democratic Self-Government Least Improve American Reforms Choice Reason Designed Eliminate Receptive
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause. Cass Sunstein
Protection Clause Proportional Equal Equal Protection Representation Requirement
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