Incompetence Quotes

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Some governments are corrupt but are known for their competency in running the city. Others are incompetent but are considered "clean." [Washington] DC's government is scandalously corrupt and hopelessly incompetent.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

Jerry's the only man I ever knew who's so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

First, God made idiots, but that was just for practice. Then he made school boards.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions. The failure of these institutions to function and the instability of these regimes in Muslim countries, manifest in frequent changes and coups d'état, is most often the consequence of their a priori opposition to Islam, as the fundamental and foremost feeling of the people in those countries.

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.

You can no more have a fool as a king than a blind man to lead you along the road

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Time was when an incompetent Governor could not be permitted among men. He was, and had to be, by one method or the other, clutched up from his place at the helm of affairs, and hurled down into the hold, perhaps even overboard, if he could not really steer. And we call those ages barbarous, because they shuddered to see a Phantasm at the helm of their affairs

...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.