#competent

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#around #habit #having #i #incompetents

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#first #incompetent #lawyers #refuge

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#describing #i #know #musically #really

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#believe #camp #caused #clinton #david

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ↗

— John Cleese

#being #bland #businessman #comes #cruel

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. ↗

— Liam Fox

#economic #economic policies #ever #government #incompetent

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#incompetent #incomprehensible #indifferent #into

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#arrived #elect #equality #feel #i