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Quotes About Incompetence

Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
~ Edmund Morris
AMATEURISHNESS WAS ONE OF HITLER'S DOMINANT TRAITS. He had never learned a profession and basically had always remained an outsider to all fields of endeavor. Like many self-taught people, he had no idea what real specialized knowledge meant.
~ Albert Speer
The two oldest professions in the world—ruined by amateurs.
~ Alexander Woollcott
States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
~ John Barrasso
The Indian government is weak. The Prime Minister is weak and ineffective.
~ J. Jayalalithaa
While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.
~ Paul Gosar
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
~ Len Wein
Corbyn is not only a liar but clueless.
~ Mike Ashley
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.
~ Bill Foster
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
~ Richard Hofstadter
One of the unfortunate side effects of teaching for forty years was that the task was so monumental, even in recollection, that it sometimes seemed you'd tried to teach everyone on the planet. What Miss Beryl looked for in each adult face was the evidence of some failed lesson in some distant yesterday that might predict incompetence today.
~ Richard Russo
I meant that in politics there may be times when it's expedient to leave someone in power who's become incompetent, because in a web like that, there are ways to circumvent the damage that person might do. But
~ Kate Elliott
Her niece had the parenting skills of a … Rose didn't even know how to finish that sentence. Any creature in nature so incapable of caring for its young would have died out centuries ago.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Incompetence can be dreadfully stable.
~ Ken Follett
Ignorant power is a bane!
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.
~ Steven Magee
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.
~ Charles Kingsley
Truth be told, these fuckers don't know their elbows from their assholes.
~ Willie Nelson
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.
~ David Steinberg
We didn't do any of it on purpose. We're just … not very good at things.
~ David Wong
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
~ Larry McMurtry
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
~ Josh Lieb
Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.
~ Jeff Greenfield