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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. -- James Cook
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent. -- Dave Matthews
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. -- Laurence J. Peter
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. -- John Maynard Keynes
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that. -- Rahul Gandhi
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. -- Peter Higgs
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. -- John Cleese
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. -- Steven Levitan
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool! -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. -- Charley Reese
I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me. -- Diablo Cody
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. -- Maureen Reagan
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. -- Luke Ford
The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. -- Michael Leunig
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. -- John Gardner
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. -- Robert Shea
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent. -- Emile Durkheim
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. -- Rush Limbaugh
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point. -- Kurt Eichenwald
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. -- Martin Van Buren
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image. -- Rush Limbaugh
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Are you lazy or just incompetent? -- Jeff Bezos
God is either cruel or incompetent. -- Woody Allen
Excuses are tools of the incompetent -- Mike Tomlin
The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally. -- Robert Baer
I don't know enough to be incompetent. -- Woody Allen
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. -- Aaron Allston
Our country is being run by incompetent people. -- Donald Trump
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary. -- Evan Wright
Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. -- Jennifer Egan
I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate. -- Leon Jaworski
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. -- John W. Gardner
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. -- Leo Buscaglia
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. -- Linus Torvalds
Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them. -- William Feather
It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people. -- David Ogilvy
Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. -- Steig Larsson
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. -- Curtis LeMay
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted -- Philip Larkin
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. -- Laurence J. Peter
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. -- Edith Sitwell
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain. -- Inge Lehmann
Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. -- Stephen Hawking
At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure -- George Carlin
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. -- Andrew Johnson
Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. -- Douglas Adams
Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation. -- Mark Latham
as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun. -- Matthew Richter
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading. -- Northrop Frye
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings). -- L. Ron Hubbard
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If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place -- Attila the Hun
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. -- William Allen White
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness -- Barack Obama
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family -- Jane Smiley
There's nothing wrong with being incompetent. It just means you don't have to do as much. -- Charles Manson
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. -- William Stewart Halsted
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. -- Carly Fiorina
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent. -- Seth Godin
President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. -- Bobby Jindal
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. -- Carl L. Becker
In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate. -- Peter Drucker
I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don't care that they're ignorant and incompetent. -- Tim Leffel
If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient. -- Joanie Connell
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster. -- George Chapman
Liberals go straight to ugly racist stereotypes when attacking conservative blacks, calling them oversexualized, stupid and/or incompetent. -- Ann Coulter
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer. -- John Donne
An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer. -- Evelle J. Younger
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent. -- Peter Drucker
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. -- Sun Tzu
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. -- Mike Yaconelli
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent! -- Ira Carmen
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child. -- H. Bentley Glass
The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent. -- G.K. Chesterton
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. -- Frederick Forsyth
We have politicians that are grossly incompetent. We have leaders that are incompetent and we have negotiators that are incompetent. -- Donald Trump
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else. -- Warren Hern
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation. -- Donald Trump
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. -- John Cleese
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word, -- Mstislav Rostropovich
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure. -- Terry Pratchett
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. -- Chris Everheart
If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people. -- Jim Rohn
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. -- John Naughton
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle. -- Baroness Orczy
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. -- Neil Gaiman
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. -- Ambrose Bierce
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. -- H. Beam Piper
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me. -- Michael Palin
Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves? -- Julian Sanchez
We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice. -- Donald Trump
Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems. -- Santoka Taneda
You missed with me so close? What? You failed your assassin training classes? Did you even bother to show up? Or are you just that incompetent? (Syn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. -- Liam Fox
Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said. -- Libba Bray
The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security. -- James Cook
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. -- Charles E. Sorensen
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work. -- Walter J. Phillips
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it. -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments. -- Christopher Hyatt
The problem is, we have leaders and negotiators that don't realize we have the power. And they're essentially incompetent. And we would be able to straighten out that thing. -- Donald Trump
I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon? -- Ilona Andrews
Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left. -- Arlen Specter
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost. -- Gretchen Rubin
On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of a boss from a fourteenth-story window. -- Larry Correia

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