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

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

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

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