Quotes About Fairness

We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.

I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

Even though the party or ideology of government is important, after the formation of the government it's the duty of the government either at the Centre or at the state to work impartially without any discrimination.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.

No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.

I think the law is equal for everyone and no one is immune from the law of the nation, the legal system.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

To be effective at delivering a decent life for all, the U.N. must treat all the people it serves with impartiality and respect.

Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

It's very wrong to take less money than you're worth.

He that always blames, or always praises, is no patriot.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded us: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.