Cass Sunstein Quotes

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

An equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

But the most common and durable source of faction [political parties] has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.