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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

  Vivian Campbell

  Doors, Musician, Fields

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Beatweek Magazine Interview, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 2011.

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• Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.

  Denis Hayes

  Law, Pollution Control, America

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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