Quotes About Fairness

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

I do not believe that the top rate should be lowered for individuals who are making more than $1 million a year. I don't think there's any need to eliminate the estate tax.

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Washington's incredible wastefulness of tax dollars is abhorrent to any sense of fairness or rational thinking.

I think I get a raw deal from referees. But as a professional footballer I have to accept it, and that's what I do.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

Giving a point to a team that has not conceded an outright win is not that great an idea. When an outright result cannot be reached, the points should be shared between the two teams.

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.

If I hadn't been fair, I would never have made the $6 billion in real estate deals that I did. I mean, if you're not fair, people don't want to deal with you.

It's really important for women in the public eye to be open - these pop stars who don't look, behave, speak like real women - that's not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic - too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.

I've always had this sense of justice - I get that from my mom, for sure. When you see stuff that's wrong, it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.