Lawrence Lessig Quotes

There Is A Culture Among Academics To Be Obscure. If You're Too Clear, You Can't Be Saying Anything Interesting. The Issue Isn't Word Length. The Issue Is A Commitment To Speaking In A Way An Audience Can Understand.

There Is Still The Illusion That If We Could Declare Corporations Are Not People Or That Money Is Not Speech, All Would Be Solved. Regardless Of The Good In Those Ideas, It Wouldn't.

I Am Big Supporter Of The Idea Of A Global Anti-corruption Movement - But One That Begins By Recognizing That The Architecture Of Corruption Is Different In Different Countries. The Corruption We Suffer Is Not The Same As The Corruption That Debilitates Africa. But It Is Both Corruption, And Both Need To Be Eliminated If The Faith In Democracy Is Not Going To Be Destroyed.

I Am A Big Supporter Of Experiments To Complement Representative Gov't With Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens, Sure. I Think Most Americans Would Be Surprised To Learn Just How Much Better We Are At Gov't Than Our Gov't.

I Find Focusing Clearly On The Problem Is The First Step To Seeing A Solution. The Problem Is (a) The Insane Amount Of Time Spent Raising Money From (b) A Freakishly Tiny Proportion Of America. Basically .05% Are The "relevant Funders" Of Campaigns, Meaning Candidates Can't Help But Be Overly Sensitive To The Views Of That Tiny Fraction Relative To The Rest Of Us. If That's The Problem, Then The Solution Is To Spread The Funders Out: To Increase The Range Of Us Who Are The Relevant Funders Of Elections, Through Schemes Like Vouchers Or Coupons Given To Every Voter.

Change The Way We Fund Campaigns. Until We Do, Wall Street Will Always Be Able To Blackmail The Dems And Gop To Giving Them What Wall Street Wants.

I'm All For Experimenting With Sortition - Randomly Selected Representative Bodies Of Citizens. But I Don't Favor Direct Democracy. We're Busy. We Have Lives. There Is Reddit. Who Has Time To Work Out The Right Answer To The Thousand Policy Choices A Gov't Must Make All The Time?

I'm Focused On Solving The Problem That Would Make It Plausible For Gov't To Get Back To Solving Real Problems.

I'm Pushing For Citizen Equality Not Because Of Some Moral Idea, But Because This Is The Essential Way To Crack The Corruption That Now Makes It So Washington Can't Work.

Here's What We [americans] Need: A 30 Second You Tube Video Of Some Guy At A Party Constantly Checking Out Everyone Else At The Party, While He Pretends To Be Speaking To The Other Person. We're The Other Person. The Guy Are The Politicians. And The Distraction Is The Corruption: We Need A Congress That Can Afford To Talk To Us. For At Least One Drink Or So.

There's No Reason For The Electors To Overrule The Popular Choice.

The Popular Choice, By More Than 2 Million Votes, Is A Completely Qualified Candidate For President.