Dick Durbin Quotes

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

But often times, I feel like I'm so blessed, it's not fair. That what I'm doing is not contributing to the good of the world.

I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

There are many things in life that are not fair …. I don’t believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking, "Do you want fries with that?

I do not object to butchering quite so much if everybody gets a fair share of the hog. But when a favored few get all the ham and pork chops, and the rest of the people get just plain old sow belly, at least the people are entitled to know what they are swallowing.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

We say success in America is about hard work and character. It's not really. Most of success today is about how good you are at certain tests and what kind of family background you have, with some exceptions sprinkled in to try and make it all seem fair.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.