#disproportion

I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#city #disproportionately #financial #financial services #i

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#alternative #any #appear #current #disproportionate

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#ethnic #ethnic groups #groups #injured #job

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#amount #been #body #disproportionate #done

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. ↗

— Lee Scott

#disproportionate #error #going #harm #made

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#best #care #children #disease #disproportionately

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. ↗

— William H. Seward

#add #claim #disproportionate #majority #minority

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity