In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.