Top 121 Adequate Quotes

These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
Bobby Scott
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market economy in an adequate and correct way.
Nguyen Phu Trong
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren’t guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
Elton Gallegly
At times you feel like you’re the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it’s to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.
Hilda Solis
I haven’t yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
William Westmoreland
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
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.
Pankaj Mishra
NATO’s deterrence has always been adequate, and I’m not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all.
Kersti Kaljulaid
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
Alan Huffman
Travelling doesn’t stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.
Anushka Shetty
I’ve been working to make sure that we’ve got adequate transportation. I’ve been working to make sure that we can afford energy within our villages and in our communities.
Lisa Murkowski
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Paul Farmer
Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don’t hear from Hillary Clinton. She’s quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that’s not adequate.
Jill Stein
As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it’s easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.
Marcus Samuelsson
It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.
Carol W. Greider
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
Bill Shuster
No one remembers the guy who goes out and does an adequate job.
P.K. Subban
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.
Wilhelm Dilthey
It seems very unfair that people cannot have adequate health care.
Jane O’Meara Sanders
The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
David F. Houston
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of course, some important progress has been made and millions of lives have been saved, but millions more could be saved.
Peter Singer
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother’s security in Pakistan.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The fact that technology makes it so easy to misuse personal information and encroach on a persons privacy has triggered a debate over whether Indias privacy laws are adequate to protect people.
Sucheta Dalal
Women especially are often asked to choose between being a mother and being a leader. Without adequate policy support, too many women face not only financial barriers to balancing motherhood and leadership, but cultural stigmas too.
Michelle Wu
The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student’s later life.
Derek Bok
Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
Daphne Oz
The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.
Miroslav Lajcak
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration’s efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.
Diana DeGette
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
Jessica Savitch
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
George Wald
If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months’ worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.
Suze Orman
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson
Besides regular exercising, one should also take care of his or her daily habits such as adequate sleep and drinking lots of water.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike
Most of the hotel gym’s are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren’t going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don’t have dumbbells and benches.
Warren Cuccurullo
The entire legal system was built upon the assumption that people would have adequate representation. When they don’t, the system fails, and the laws don’t matter.
Shari Redstone
I’m not a policy oriented person. I’m constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.
Angela Duckworth
I’m very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
Kate Brown
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
Ruth Benedict
I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - part

I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time – particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart – rediscover them – and you must.
Andre Previn
We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.
John Chilcot
I intend to bring forth the hardships and uncertainty stuntmen face. India does not have adequate infrastructure or safety guidelines to protect them, and their work often goes unnoticed.
Aishwarya R. Dhanush
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities… at an acceptable political as well as economic price.
William E. Simon
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can’t live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don’t.
Elizabeth Bowen
Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that’s a wonderful thing. But higher education can’t exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.
Sebastian Thrun
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug
In light of the documented benefits of urban trees, we must also ensure that we increase green spaces in underserved communities throughout the city that lack adequate parks and other green spaces.
Letitia James
Writing is just very difficult. I’m an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
Ira Glass