Quotes About Fairness

The professionals at the State Board of Elections must assume control of the county board of elections operations in Bladen County, which has shown itself incapable of managing fair elections.

We want to be treated as professionals and like the male footballers.

Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to find a structure in which chess professionals of lower levels would make a good living as well.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

I don't think it's fair to a family to uproot them simply because it's profitable for you to do so.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

Housing is predominantly presented as a generational issue: millennials aren't able to get on the property ladder in the same way their parents were. But while it's true that intergenerational fairness is an issue, this way of presenting the housing crisis glosses over much.

I would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Persons who wrongly managed or used the government's money will have to respond to justice in a process that is just, balanced and without political prosecution and without bias.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.