#incompetence

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 F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#good #incompetence #iraq #love #managers

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#been #comes #continue #dollars #incompetence

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ↗

— Dora Russell

#human #incompetence #laws #mark #marriage

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

#could #delegate #dilemma #duties #either

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. ↗

— Connie Willis

#management #paperwork #forgiveness

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#life

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

#america #become #chef #double-edged #double-edged sword

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#incompetence #keep #mind #open #open mind

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. ↗

— Anthony Zinni

#corruption #i #incompetence #iraq #iraq war