A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

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

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.

Shortly thereafter some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

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

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

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.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.