We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

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 fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.

There are various ways you might define the common good, but that would be one way you could do it.