Adequacy Quotes

The operating trend is as I expected, although revenues are of slightly better quality. But it's disappointing that they haven't made progress in dealing with the capital adequacy position at this stage. - Sheila Garrard

The main thing to me is content... Essentially, I'm dealing with things I can't necessarily talk to people about--issues that are volatile, unpopular--coupled with my own problems, my own feelings of inadequacy. If something is bothering me on a personal level, I'll usually put it into my art--sickness, war, abortion--or genetic manipulation, which concerns me greatly. We're on the verge of being able to modify ourselves physically any way we want or even design people from scratch. The government might potentially get involved; look at the eugenics movement in the U.S. back in the '20s or the Nazis. I do see a potential resurgence of those concepts. But I think it'll mostly be consumer-driven. - James Cleary

The Legislature has explicitly turned its back on determining the cost of adequacy. - Bill Chapman

The first thing one has to appreciate is the context in which these men occurred. One, there was a perception about the intellectual inadequacy of African-Americans. Secondly, there was a perception that African-Americans did not have the same will to defend and fight for democracy and freedom. - Alvin Thornton

The electric power industry's preoccupation with passing through its biggest single-year fuel increases in history is creating a strong chance that U.S. power markets will not be able to successfully address resource adequacy, resulting in power shortages in some areas of the country within the next five years. - Lawrence Makovich

The confidence of our nation was shaken by the slowness and inadequacy of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina... a concerted effort to make certain that the tax dollars we appropriate actually help the victims and does not generate quick profits to big contractors. - Kendrick Meek

The bank's capital adequacy ratio of 6.2 percent at the time was inadequate. Additional provision was needed to save the bank's credit card subsidiary. Without a capital injection, the ratio could have fallen to 4.4 percent. - John Grayken

Sylvia has taken a courageous stand to highlight the inadequacy of the basic state pension by showing how difficult it is for millions of older people to make ends meet and pay their bills. - Frank Cooper

School districts are charged with responsibility to offer to each disabled child an individualized education program (IEP) suitable to the child's special needs. The proponent of the IEP, it seems to me, is properly called upon to demonstrate its adequacy. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. - Eric Hoffer