#minimize

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? ↗

— Artur Davis

#blast #children #genius #glorified #hear

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized. ↗

— John Cameron

#desired #dose #given #making #medical

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? ↗

— Edward Felten

#consumers #copying #enough #given #happy

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#announced #changed #could #did #errors

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #city government #emergencies #franciscans #government

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#equilibrium #information #minimized #must #politics

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#call #deliberate #genocide #let us #light