Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manager turnover is not necessarily bad. Maybe a manager is leaving and there's a perfectly adequate team in place, or the new manager has been groomed.

We have a very small staff here at the Nashville-area Red Cross, and we feel like it's important for everyone's security to have adequate security personnel.

Victor Davis Hanson

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

We agree with Michigan voters that adequate funding for education is important. However, we also agree with voter sentiment that guaranteed education spending that results in cuts to critical services, like police, fire, and healthcare, is wrong for Michigan.

I think our view is the market needs to continue to be adequately supplied. There is a lot of uncertainty about demand and therefore it's best to let the market determine how much it wants to take up.

James Heckman

I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.

We can provide, and believe we are providing, adequately for the area of New England as far as coverage is concerned,

We realized that it would be hard to get enough people. Given the fact that we have no idea when the union would call a strike, our first priority was that we have an adequate number of responsible adults to be able to administer the curriculum.

We don't currently meet our fields per population. We have a number of issues with not having adequate available practice and game fields.

We do not believe we have been given an adequate hearing. We are a bit taken aback by this.

E. O. Wilson

which is to maintain the status quo by keeping Theresa Schiavo alive until the federal courts have a new and adequate opportunity to consider the constitutional issues.

David Trimble

We have stretched ourselves remarkably in the circumstances, ... It is also obvious there is a limit to how far we can stretch ourselves without an adequate response being made in the circumstances.

Otto Schily

Unfortunately, this did not happen in an adequate manner.

Unfortunately, there is no vehicle on the road that can adequately protect people in such collisions. We do not believe any other comparable vehicles' fuel tanks could have survived the severity of this impact.

Pankaj Mishra

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

Jan Egeland

I would say every society in the world is not preparing adequately for catastrophic events.

I would say at this stage we will certainly be seriously looking at continuing this case because we do not believe we have been given an adequate hearing.

Ed Rollins

I wish them well. My sense is these people are more than adequate to run a proper campaign.

I would give the Pentagon a less than adequate grade for its mental health efforts.

I would dearly love to see Oceana continue as a Master Jet Base, but the decision in terms of where BRAC continues on is not one that involves me. I really would like to hold off on any assessment of what's transpiring there in terms of encroachment or remediation activities. But I do recognize that this is a master jet base, and we don't have many of them. It's very critical that we have adequate master jet base capabilities to ensure we can continue both training and operational support activities.

Lawrence Summers

China has to make a set of adequate commitments to liberalizing its economy -- commitments that are commensurate to the scale of its economy and to the importance of it in the world economy,

China and other developing countries remain a concern with respect to putting in place and maintaining adequate intellectual property rules.

Helen Zille

I have already stated that we cannot start signing contracts worth millions of rands until we have been given adequate information on how much the stadium will cost and how it will be paid for. Thus far we have not been presented with a proper financial model to work with, and it would be irresponsible to proceed without one.

I have been fighting long and hard for an adequate sewer system in my district.

I find it reprehensible considering he (Goss) failed to carry out adequate oversight when he sat on the House intelligence committee.

Nigel Kennedy

I don't think I am going to play in London with an orchestra until I can be assured that I'm getting adequate rehearsal,"" declares Kennedy. ""And if that's never, I won't play in London with an English orchestra. I'll have to bring one in from somewhere else.

I'd want to be sure that I've got adequate insurance for the sake of my loved ones.

Given weather conditions this winter, supply overall appears to be adequate for U.S. needs through the winter.

Chris Turner

He's a big guy, that can be an adequate blocker. You look around the league and there are a lot of tight ends that are ex-receivers or ex-basketball players who are playing at a high level.

Juveniles in the care of the state have a right to be safe. They also have a right to adequate services to promote their rehabilitation.

Richard Moe

It became a house museum in the hands of a nonprofit organization without an adequate endowment. And this is unfortunately too common a practice. These houses really need endowments, because visitation alone will never support them.

I think it's going to take some time for commuters and residents to adjust. But the detours and alternative routes will be adequate to handle the traffic.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important that, to the extent possible, those contingency plans be coordinated, that each branch work in concert with the other. I don't think that's been done adequately to date, but I am confident that it could be in the future,