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Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk. -- Seth Klarman
The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting. -- Eric Schmidt
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. -- John Abizaid
Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS. -- Richard Engel
They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets. -- Ward Churchill
Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes. -- Barton Gellman
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims. -- Fatou Bensouda
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. -- Paul Watson
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. -- Sylvia Earle
Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference. -- Sundar Pichai
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists. -- Pat Roberts
I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip. -- Margot Robbie
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. -- Alcee Hastings
We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices. -- George Papandreou
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. -- John Hoeven
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. -- Clare Short
The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels. -- Preet Bharara
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. -- Andrew Thomas
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets. -- David Milne
Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern. -- Charles Duhigg
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising. -- Gail Collins
In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups. -- Ben Shapiro
GamerGate is really a sexist temper tantrum. That's kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it's kind of what it feels like, right? They're going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They're attacking anyone who supports women. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. -- Karl Rove
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati. -- Jim Jordan
Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super Bowl or the World Series, we assume that that is what they're targeting. -- Peter T. King
The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. -- Edward Snowden
Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists. -- Ann Coulter
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. -- Rand Paul
Now the bad guy's not targeting cash. He's targeting narcotics. And he's robbing a pharmacy because that's where the narcotics are. -- Paul Martin
I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them. -- Rod Coronado
I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, -- Illmaculate
My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs. -- John R. Leopold
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses. -- Cleta Mitchell
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists -- Pat Roberts
France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us. -- Manuel Valls
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children. -- Michele Bachmann
The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool. -- Greg Gutfeld
Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately. -- Jan Egeland
The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc. -- Chika Anadu
Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered. -- Adrian Younge
These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own. -- Gwen Moore
Donald Trump is targeting the traditional Republican voters, the average person with an average income, the working class, a certain group of entrepreneurs and those people who embrace traditional values. -- Vladimir Putin
Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report. -- Patrick Howley
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There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote. -- Michel Martin
I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people. -- Barack Obama
I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of "?targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own. -- Gwen Moore
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting. -- Jack Germond

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