Quotes About Fairness

I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.

It's a very competitive world out there. The competitive spirit is fine within limits. But it shouldn't drown the sheer joy of the game being played. It's natural to want to win. But to me, it's not natural to want others to fail.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.

Enterprises of different ownerships should all enjoy fair opportunities and conditions to compete in the market.

I am all for confrontation but not baseless.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

'Survivor' was not fixed. There's no way to fix 'Survivor.'

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

I'm a compassionate person, so if a product is 15 percent more than what I typically pay, and I see the purpose, I'll foster that kind of sustainability for the farmers/fishers.

Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

We never tell countries that they should have a particular number in terms of a tax number, you know, if countries can make do with whatever average tax they have. The question is, do they apply it to everybody? Or do they give sweetheart deals to some companies?

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

What is really important for us in Sydney is to make sure every community is treated the same.

In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.