Incompetency Quotes

I am getting rich against my own inclination.

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

Honorable party service will certainly not be esteemed by me a disqualification for public office, but it will in no case be allowed to serve as a shield of official negligence, incompetency, or delinquency.

The only difficulty I had in declaring war arose from the incompetency of the men to whom the principle management of it was to be given.

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

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

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

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

Armed with purity of intentions and firmness of purpose, I may reasonably entertain the hope of being able to clear the administrative agency of all corruption and incompetency, and impart to it the maximum of honesty and efficiency. I now warn my officials of all ranks that I have fully made up my mind to put down corruption and intrigue wherever they may be found.

The combination of secrecy and bureaucracy in the CIA has led to a special kind of disaster.

I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.