Quotes About Incompetence

Unknown to Oldfield, the best opportunity yet to arrest the Yorkshire Ripper was about to unfold, but it happened at the very time when the investigation was at its most dangerous, depressing and muddled phase, with carelessness piled upon misfortune piled upon incompetence.

After once watching an accountant from Boise look straight down the barrel of his loaded rifle in an effort to figure out why it wasn't firing, he figured out that stupidity was likely a terminal condition.

She thinks they're just incompetence. But, then, she thinks that most things that go wrong are just incompetence.

You've worked for the government too long to imagine they have the resources or competence to cover shit up. Never attribute to conspiracy that which can adequately be explained by clusterfuckery.

Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he's smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.

Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job.

After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what she saw as the grim debacle of the Trump White House, she spoke with harsh candor about bitter rivalries joined to vast incompetence and an uncertain mission.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

The next few days live in infamy as every level of government screwed up beyond belief. The city of New Orleans filled with water. Citizens who survived the hurricane died, by the hundreds, in the post-storm flood. People were stranded at the Superdome and convention center, the latter of which wasn't even supposed to be a shelter.

The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

Most kings should be entertained because they lack talent except killing and scolding others.

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Fariq took the phone without asking and redialed the number, as if her difficulty might be the result of general female incompetence

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Democracy and 'progressive democracy' are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state, Since winning elections is overwhelmingly a matter of vote buying, and society's informational organs (education and media) are no more resistant to bribery than the electorate, a thrifty politician is simply an incompetent politician, and the democratic variant of Darwinism quickly eliminates such misfits from the gene pool.

Interesting that they fear Edward Jay Smith's supposed incompetence more than they fear Jarret's obvious tyranny.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.