Cass Sunstein Quotes

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists.

If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it.

Technology has allowed the creation of media echo chambers, so that a person can reinforce, rather than debate, viewpoints.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.

When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

Terrorists are different. Even individuals within a single terrorist organization often have different motivations, and their motivations change over time.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

As an American, I condemn a Republican "Fascist" just as much as I condemn a Democrat "Communist." I condemn a Democrat "Fascist" just as much as I condemn a Republican "Communist." They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

We’ve had gerrymandering all along, so there is no proof that this is the cause of all this polarization…there are two other major factors that are much, much more prevalent than redistricting. One is the 24-hour a day, 7 days a week news media, where you only get noticed if you’re extreme. And the other is McCain-Feingold which pushed a great deal of money to the extremes.

This difference between the two parties covers a wide range, and is indicative of the conservative thought of the one and the progressive thought of the other.