Ineffective Quotes

I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

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

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.

The State Department is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Pertschuk, you're like a cross-eyed javelin thrower. You never hit anything, but you keep everybody on the edge of his seat.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

It doesn't do us any good to get paper agreements that collapse.

I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

The House of Lords is like a glass of Champaign that has stood for five days.

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

The Armistice Agreement has, in effect, become a blank piece of paper without any effect or significance.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

It's unreasonable, unworkable, expensive and unfair.

It's a vast waste of space.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.

It is useless attacking the insensible.