Always Quote by Charles Krauthammer

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

— Peter Bergen

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Charles Krauthammer

“Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them…

— Charles Krauthammer

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

— Dean Devlin

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Evan Wright

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

— Jeff Greenfield

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

— Larry McMurtry

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

— Darrell Issa

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

— James Cook

“The pandemic revealed the incompetence of government.”

— Steven Magee