Cass Sunstein Quotes

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.

The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this - there is no easy solution - are fundamental changes. That the world is changing quicker than our policies are changing. And we need the kinds of policies that will let us have a competitive economy going forward.

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.

If it's conservative to say we need to help the middle class, then I'm a conservative.

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, I realize that's my top agenda item. That's the thing I need to do."