Quotes About Fairness

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

We should waive fees for those taking equal pay claims; they are our whistleblowers and should be encouraged.

Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.

There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

I'm not a dirty fighter. Everybody knows that.

I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.

I'm just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they're making. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I'm one of the more exciting fighters under contract in the UFC.

My low point was after being reorganized out of running Merrill Lynch. That dismissal deeply contradicted my sense of fairness, since, at the time, my team and I had done what we were brought in to do: We had turned Merrill Lynch around from the depths of the financial crisis.

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.

If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn't look like a good client, he's fired immediately.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

Everyone must be in the same competitive situation, including on the fiscal level.

The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.

While the DOJ and the SEC must be vigilant in investigating and prosecuting white-collar misconduct, we must also ensure that we are acting fairly and prudently.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'