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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing 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.

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.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

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.

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?

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.

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.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.