Leadership Quote by Mike Lowry

There is a particular kind of political sentence that tries to be unassailable by being almost content-free, and Mike Lowry's line is a clean specimen. "Endeavoring to try" piles intention on top of intention, as if effort itself is the achievement. The redundancy isn't just verbal clutter; it's a hedge. In politics, certainty can be punished, specificity can be litigated, and promises can become attack ads. So the language retreats into process: we're attempting, we're doing what we can, we're moving in the right direction. You can't easily accuse someone of failing at "endeavoring."

The phrase "make a fairer society" is the moral payload, and it lands precisely because it's both aspirational and elastic. "Fair" is a consensus word that masks disagreement about mechanisms. Voters can hear fairness as progressive redistribution, equal opportunity, anti-corruption reform, or just a gut-level correction of something that feels rigged. The Fairness Project, in that framing, becomes a brand that borrows ethical authority without naming the trade-offs that fairness usually demands: who pays, who loses, what changes.

Context matters, too. Lowry's era of Democratic politics was shaped by suspicion of big government and the rise of technocratic, nonprofit-sounding initiatives that promised improvement without ideological heat. The sentence performs that posture: careful, decent, civic-minded. Its intent is reassurance; its subtext is risk management. It works not because it's eloquent, but because it's politically survivable.