Quotes and Sayings about 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."
- Charles F. Bass
(Related: Intelligence, Incompetence, Years)
"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."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Community, Fact, Incompetence, May, Treason)
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(Related: Incompetence, Malice)
"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."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Mistake, Policy, Tax, Incompetence, Iraq, Republicans, Running)
"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?"
- Margaret Carlson
(Related: Love, Money, Americans, Blind, Incompetence, Iraq, Managers, Reason, Republicans, Running, Waste)
"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."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Science, Boasts, Ignorance, Incompetence, Literature, Mathematics)
"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."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Father, Incompetence, Paradox, Sons)
"The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence."
- John Galliano
(Related: Women, Incompetence)
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Home, America, Enemies, Ignorance, Incompetence, Superstition)
"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."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Age, Business, Incompetence, Job, Play, Song)
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
- Billy Joel
(Related: Age, Incompetence)
"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."
- Matt LeBlanc
(Related: Expertise, Fact, Incompetence, Job, Mission, Right)
"The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence."
- John Olver
(Related: Body, Incompetence)
"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Incompetence, Laziness, Luck)
"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Men, Women, Incompetence, Now)
"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Work, Employees, Incompetence)
"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Incompetence)
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Incompetence)
"The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
- Emo Philips
(Related: Evil, Incompetence, Office, Post)
"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."
- Marge Piercy
(Related: War, Incompetence)
"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
- Dora Russell
(Related: Marriage, Incompetence, Laws, Police)
"The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible."
- Malcolm Wallop
(Related: Incompetence)
"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
- Charlotte Whitton
(Related: Incompetence, Man)
"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."
- Anthony Zinni
(Related: War, Corruption, Incompetence, Iraq, Lying)