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.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

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

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.