Incompetence Quotes

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.