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I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
Donald Trump
Government
Good
Patience
Injustice
National
Lost
Before
Politicians
Tolerance
Incompetence
Sympathy
Our
Citizens
Embraced
Put
Fail
Leaders
Crying
Because
Mothers
Personal
Children
Agendas
Who
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
Charles Krauthammer
You
Conspiracy
Incompetence
Faced
Between
Always
Going
Whenever
Explanation
Choice
Choose
Washington
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
Graydon Carter
Best
Ignorance
Arrogance
Personality
Leader
Cocktail
Incompetence
State
Pretty
Fact
Head
Traits
Situations
In Fact
Lethal
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Work
Employees
Incompetence
Those
Reached
Accomplished
Who
Level
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
Incompetence
Every
Hierarchy
Rise
Tends
Employee
His
Level
Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
Peter Bergen
Better
Conspiracy
Incompetence
Most
Than
Human
Human Activity
Explanation
Activity
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel
Me
Age
Incompetence
Extraordinary
Merely
Makes
Said
Am
Competent
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
Father
King
Incompetence
Dilemma
Paradox
Neither
Abdicate
Would
See
Delegate
Only
Could
Sons
Understand
His
Duties
Either
Realizing
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins
Mathematics
Ignorance
Science
Become
Incompetence
Claim
Remark
Almost
Nobody
Cliche
Acceptable
Proudly
Literature
Boast
Socially
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
James Cash Penney
Laziness
Luck
Incompetence
Always
Refuge
Last
Chance
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard
Home
Ignorance
Enemies
Incompetence
Foes
Threaten
Only
Superstition
America
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
Richard Cohen
Grace
Incompetence
Saving
Saving Grace
Chaotic
Menace
Both
His
Trump
Ignorant
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Charlotte Whitton
Alone
Man
Live
Incompetence
Cannot
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Emo Philips
Post
Evil
Incompetence
Way
Post Office
Russians
Combination
Like
Sort
Understand
Tanks
Office
By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
Jim Mattis
Work
You
Business
Better
Men
Reading
Young
Incompetence
Consequences
Others
Final
Our
Way
Through
Generally
Better Way
Learn
Line
Where
Experiences
Young Men
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
Matt Taibbi
Failure
Financial
Stupidity
Incompetence
Society
Our
System
Dream
Threat
See
Winning
Highest
Highest Levels
Fair
Like
Well
Looks
Loser
America
American
Bank
Rewarded
Just
American Dream
Want
Meanness
Incentive
Who
Assault
Play
Levels
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
Robert Kiyosaki
Government
You
Business
Rich
Incompetence
Cheat
Fail
Bailout
Protected
Go
May
Politically
Jail
Your
Connected
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
Charles Bass
Technology
Community
Incompetence
Our
Administration
Rise
Fact
Part
Counterintelligence
Accessible
Clinton
Clinton Administration
May
In Fact
Which
Level
Treason
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Charles Bass
Intelligence
Incompetence
System
Arcane
Failures
Due
Years
Listened
Anyone
Stories
Four
I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
Dean Devlin
Incompetence
Philosophy
Conspiracies
Never
Attribute
Always
Which
Explained
Lived
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell
Marriage
Police
Incompetence
Mark
Laws
Armies
Human
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
Gordon Ramsay
Family
Man
Hate
World
Stove
Become
Incompetence
Every
Think
Thoroughbred
Take
Driven
Perfectionist
Chef
Off
Jacket
America
Jackets
Family Man
Just
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Across
Switch
Sword
Two
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
Jacques Dubochet
Good
Three
Chemistry
Incompetence
Everyone
Worried
Says
Promoted
Point
Remarkable
Never
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Reach
Reached
Until
Principle
Been
Very
Prize
May
Peter
Gratified
Level
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
Jean-Luc Godard
Simplicity
Incompetence
Mark
Eye
Attempts
Reticence
Fix
Straight
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
John Galliano
Women
Problem
Hide
Men
Incompetence
Say
Hidden
Know
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
John Olver
Incompetence
Criminal
Negligence
Rises
Vehicle
Almost
Armor
Regarding
Body
Level
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