#fairness

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#across #america #creators #economic #economic issues

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#fairness #leveling #through

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#better #companies #company #cooperation #democratic

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. ↗

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

#humanity-and-society #life #sustainability #wealth #life

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. ↗

— David Plouffe

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#books #bring #currently #did #fairness

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#juries #law #prosecution #unfairness #business