Cass Sunstein Quotes

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Lobbying, in large part, is conducted to prevent change from happening.

I campaign all the time.

Policy makers do the right thing only if the public makes as much noise as possible.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill's got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

The people who make the most noise get the most publicity. Interest groups do count as opposed to data and rationality.

Resolved that all persons or corporations employing counsel or agents to represent their interests in regard to any measure pending at any time before this House or any committee thereof, shall cause the name and authority of such counsel to be filed with the clerk of the House.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

Nothing happens in America without pressure.

Everyone who lobbies represents someone’s particular point of view.