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.

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

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.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

If you improve education by teaching for competence eliminating schooling and connecting with students the test scores will improve.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation we deprive them of their rights of citizenship and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

That's what liberalism is all about is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Competence like truth beauty and contact lenses is in the eye of the beholder.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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.