Welcome to our collection of insightful quotes on the theme of Level Playing Field. In various aspects of life, be it sports, education, business, or politics, the notion of a level playing field is often cited as essential for fairness and equal opportunity. It represents the ideal scenario where all participants have an equal chance to succeed, regardless of their background, status, or resources. These quotes reflect on the importance of creating and maintaining equitable environments where everyone can thrive based on their merits and efforts, rather than external advantages or disadvantages.
As you explore the quotes below, you’ll encounter perspectives from diverse individuals spanning different fields and backgrounds. From renowned athletes to influential leaders, each quote offers a unique insight into the significance of a level playing field and its implications for society. Whether you seek inspiration, motivation, or simply a deeper understanding of this concept, these quotes are sure to resonate with you. Discover wisdom, encouragement, and thought-provoking ideas that may inspire you to contribute to creating a fairer and more inclusive world. Now, without further ado, let’s delve into the wisdom encapsulated in these quotes on the topic of a level playing field.
Our belief in free markets and a level playing field are values that make the world more free, fair, and prosperous. Gary Cohn
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive. Marvin Ammori
I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do more, that we have to be better, that we have to be exceptional just to stay on a level playing field. And it’s in a lot of ways unfair, but I know I’m not alone in that feeling. Brian Flores
With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players. Chellie Pingree
President Obama believes in a level playing field. Elizabeth Warren
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
What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider. Michael Seibel
As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn’t throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly. Troy Aikman
The fact is, there are far more customers for American products outside of the U.S. than there are here at home. With open markets and a level playing field, American workers can out-compete workers anywhere in the world. Eric Garcetti
There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns. Deborah Tannen
I’ll tell you my legacy: I wasn’t welcome. I was too small. I couldn’t play the game the way they wanted me to play the game. Sound like an uneven game to me. Put me on a level playing field, and I’ll show you. Ben Wallace
We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field. Rob Portman
In our view, the main role of the government in the green transition is to ensure a predictable framework and a level playing field for innovation, industry, and enterprise. And, most importantly, to provide clear direction. Erna Solberg
Mississippi catfish producers deserve to compete on a level playing field with foreign producers, and, more importantly, American consumers need to be confident that the catfish they serve their families is healthy, safe, and free of dangerous chemicals. Cindy Hyde-Smith
We all rely on our infrastructure system even if we don’t own a car or use public transportation. It impacts our economy and our quality of life. It is a key component of addressing inequality as well as creating a level playing field for all Americans and a pathway to sustainability. Michael Capuano
I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs. Christopher Dodd
The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let’s be honest. It isn’t the one that motivates most officials and fans to frown on steroids. Steroid use does not just seem risky or unnatural, it seems to disrupt the level playing field. Alice Dreger
Let everybody compete on a level playing field. Trevor Bauer
The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies. Jose Angel Gurria
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
That’s my passion. To make sure everybody is treated equally. To make sure we get equal justice. To make sure that everybody is on the same level playing field. Scarface
Rules designed to ensure competition ensure that innovators with new ideas can challenge incumbents on a level playing field. David Cohen
If you don’t like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? Maynard Jackson
I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn’t mean you can just make inaccurate statements. Lexi Alexander
I think that the level playing field is so unlevel – it is tilted so much in favor of Chinese companies – that it’s time for the United States to do a little bit more, see. Max Baucus
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. Vint Cerf
New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn’t have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field. Gary Johnson
If I’m to be an ‘ist’ then, like Bobby Kennedy, I’m probably more of a free market capitalist than an environmentalist. Rather than wanting to tell people to be less bad, I’m saying let’s make it fair across the board and stop subsidizing the big heavy-polluting fat cats, let’s make it a level playing field. Gord Downie
The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through – like I did – because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them. Andrew Neil
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
When it comes to protecting workers, labour conditions, labour legislation, the rights for collective bargaining, when you look at our environmental standards, when you look at our public disclosure laws and accountability and securities regulations to ensure that companies abide by the law, we don’t have a level playing field with China. Andrew Scheer
Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation. Winnie Byanyima
When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn’t provide that level playing field. Rob Portman
I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it’s very disruptive to the science because it’s terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field. Tim Hunt
One of the reasons I’m so competitive – I mean, I’m not winning much anymore – at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don’t have motorbikes in the peloton anymore. Jens Voigt
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field – no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. Lynda Resnick
Veterans are determined to continue serving here at home, and given a level playing field, they will compete with anyone. Conor Lamb
I’m not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field. Toomas Hendrik Ilves
What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women’s sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men. Johanna Konta
I’m motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance. Iqbal Quadir
For the benefit of the league you want everybody to be treated the same and you want a level playing field. Eddie Howe
At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way – it’s a level playing field. Toni Duggan
It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field. Cristiano Ronaldo
Your influence and remuneration is directly proportionate to your film’s success. So in that sense, Bollywood is a level playing field. If you are delivering on certain parameters, regardless of your gender, you will get paid. Kanika Dhillon
The shipping industry plays a fundamental role in boosting global trade and prosperity. Maritime leaders have rightly recognised the need to invest in more energy-efficient vessels and to apply measures like slow-steaming. But to ensure a level playing field, collective action is urgently needed across the sector. Barry Gardiner
I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field. Bill Foster
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
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
Why is it that E.U. players are allowed to move country once they turn 16… but non-Europeans can only do so at 18? Why aren’t we campaigning for a level playing field, where our best 16 year olds – who may not have an E.U. passport like I had – are free to move when they turn 16, like the best young players in Europe can? Christian Pulisic
What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we’re focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we’re making sure that we honor those values? Valerie Jarrett
If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn’t have the power to do you any favors. That’s what we need. You would have to compete on your own on a level playing field, but that’s not what the government permits now. Dan Bongino
While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field. Philip Hammond
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
We can’t go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters. Ma Jun
The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it’s unpatriotic if you’re not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world. Jim Jordan
I think it’s really important that we have a level playing field for global trade. Dennis Muilenburg
TV is a level playing field, and you’re competing for eyeballs. Terence Winter
I don’t feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field. Kim Fields
If I’m hitting 3-wood and everyone else is hitting driver, it’s a level playing field. If I’m hitting driver straight, then I think I’m playing at a different level than everybody else. Gary Woodland
When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I’ve had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do. Jake Peavy
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts. Martin Jacques
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
