Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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.

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.

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

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly it is completely honest.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

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

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