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Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

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.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.