Quote by Charles Krauthammer

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

— Charles Krauthammer

“Explanations involving conspiracy, greed, and even stupidity are easier to generate and accept than more complex explanations that may be closer to the truth.…

— Anonymous

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

— Charles Krauthammer

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good…

— Thomas Mallon

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous.

— David Harsanyi

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“More important and more relevant to the death of expertise, however, is that conspiracy theories are deeply attractive to people who have a hard…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.”

— Charles Bukowski

“These days being stupid is easy… ain't theorem and it is not even any part of conspiracy.”

— Deyth Banger

“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites…

— Carl Sagan

“There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world...”

— William Gaddis

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy”

— Niccolò Machiavelli