The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

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.

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.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines they want every other citizen to have justice. So you might say they're all working together to do one thing, namely to make sure every citizen has justice. Now that's not the only interest they all have, but it's the single thing they're all trying to do. In my language, they've striving toward one single end, the end of justice for all citizens.

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.