222 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause

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.

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

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

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