Level Playing Field Quotes

• It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Sports, Cheating, Work

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• If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

  Maynard Jackson

  Opportunity, Guarantees, Levels

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• There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

  Robert D Bullard

  Time, Powerful, Doors

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• I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

  Scott Bakula

  Hurt, Creativity, Thinking

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• Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Fighting, Creative

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• Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Jobs, Fighting

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• I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Fighting, Levels

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• President Obama believes in a level playing field.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Believe, President, Levels

  "Elizabeth Warren Speech Text: Read The Democratic Candidate’s DNC Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

  Al Franken

  Powerful, Media, Should Have

  "The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

  John Thorn

  Father, Son, Years

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• The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

  James Surowiecki

  Innovation, Littles, Fields

  "Net Losses". www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2006.

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• Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

  Vinton Cerf

  People, Levels, Rooms

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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• In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Order, Levels, Fields

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• I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

  Alanis Morissette

  Levels, Might, Fields

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• We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

  Derrick Bell

  America, Greed, Levels

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• We`re putting ourselves - we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world.

  Paul Ryan

  America, World, Levels

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible?

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Home, Opportunity, Bridges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Fighting, Needs, Benefits

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.

  Muhtar Kent

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

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• In football I enjoyed competing and wanted to be the best. That was also part of it. There were quite a few factors. I loved the game, it was a great way to socialize and I liked playing against girls because it meant competing on a level playing field.

  Hope Powell

  Girl, Football, Games

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.

  Malorie Blackman

  Dream, Thinking, Justice

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• I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

  Arne Duncan

  Technology, Thinking, Important

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• The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Data, Example, Analysis

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• I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.

  Nick Clegg

  Hands, Europe, Issues

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• We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

  John McCain

  Winning, Ideas, Special

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