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But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.