Quotes About Fairness

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

It's not fair that people who work, save, and pay for their cell phones are forced to fund the Lifeline program that pads the pockets of people like Carlos Slim, the foreign billionaire who has repeatedly been named the World's Richest Man.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

It's not just organizing that demands affordable and fast mobile internet access. Small business owners depend on equal and fair online access for their livelihoods.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.

I don't care who you are. You can be the smallest person off the street, or you could be the biggest person in the world. I'm going to treat everybody the same - with respect.

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

Mainstream America, in the long run, will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process and for senators who do their jobs and vote - not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

It's important to play the right way. If you play the right way, it's so much fun.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

We have an incompetent zealot taking the nation down the road of weakness and centralized governmental control of every aspect of our daily lives. Desiring to control us from inception to death, from womb to tomb. Monitoring our every word, controlling what we eat, drink, think, and speak. All in the name of "fairness." Just as individuals snap when the pressure becomes too great, so, too, does a nation.

La verdadera justicia consiste en pagar sólo una vez por cada error. Lo que es verdaderamente injusto es pagar varias veces por el mismo error.

Una mente indulgente es justa. El perdón crea inmunidad al dolor.

The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.

Ah! Nature is so fair a thing, Clad with the Sunshine and the Spring!

La justicia no es cuestión de hombres. Existe la justicia de las leyes ciegas y crueles y luego hay, quizás, alguna justicia más elevada, pero ésa no la entiendo. Siempre he tenido la sensación de que vivo en este mundo al margen de la justicia.

el amor verdadero tiene siempre la razón, aunque sea injusto