Anthony Zinni Quotes

The tragic truth is that this falls somewhere between screw-up and cover-up.

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.

Incompetency, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration of national defense.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

It's hard to tell whether [Attorney General] Janet Reno is engaged in a cover-up or she's merely incompetent.

… massive waste, fraud and abuse

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.

Your government failed you. The people entrusted with your security failed you. I failed you.

Washington is a cesspool of non-accountability.

I never will ascribe to this government [Liberal Party] such wrongdoing as mere stupidity will explain.

… a degeneracy of representation in the great council of America .… Many members of it are no doubt men in every respect, fit for the trust, but this cannot be said of it as a body. Folly, caprice a want of foresight, comprehension and dignity, characterize the general tenor of their actions…. Their conduct with respect to the army especially is feeble indecisive and improvident

This really vital and sensitive military installation has been wrecked – more thoroughly than any Soviet saboteur could have dreamed of doing it… [through] the process of witch-hunting, sheer bigotry, cowardice, race prejudice and sheer incompetence.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

He has demonstrated his incompetence to hold the said office of Sheriff, by reason of his ignorance of the duties of his office and the laws of this State pertaining to the same, and by reason of the appointment to and retention in office under him of incompetent and unworthy persons; that he has sworn falsely under oath at public hearings before the Joint Legislative Committee; that he has failed to account for or to explain the receipt and possession of large sums of money in excess of his salary as a public officer or income received from any admitted occupation or from investments, upon all of which grounds and by reason of any and all the charges hereinabove enumerated, it is respect fully submitted that said Thomas M. Farley should cease to be an incumbent of the office of Sheriff of New York County.

… the polluted harpies that, under the pretense of governing this city, are feeding day and night on its quivering vitals. They are a lying, perjured, rum-soaked and libidinous lot

The whole of your political conduct has been one continued series of weakness, temerity, despotism, ignorance, futility, negligence, blundering, and the most notorious senility, incapacity, and corruption.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

Government screws up.

Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.