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A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism. – Charles Koch	added by Normando 3 months ago
More concerning than the debacle last night is his career track record of not showing up for work, well documented by the AP and the Washington Post, he simply disappeared in previous roles as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Braddock where he quit attending council meetings altogether. The only thing worse than being incapable of advocating for his constituents, is being uninterested in the job. – John Ashbrook	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us. – Joseph Sobran	added by Normando 1 year ago
To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic. – Ted Nugent	added by Normando 1 year ago
There’s no shame in the fact that many seniors need assistance around stairs, and they shouldn’t be made to feel fragile or incapable. – Sara Robertson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The central government regulators seem to be incapable of enforcing those regulations aimed at preventing this kind of bank run from occurring. – Frank Xie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Broken-windows policing has long been discredited for furthering mistrust between the police and the communities we serve, and this rebranded version will yield those same results, with the same disparate enforcement, it will undoubtedly send more Black and Latinx New Yorkers to Rikers Island, a facility that is wholly incapable of caring for the people in its custody. – Jennvine Wong	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My father had the kindest heart. He helped everyone he could. He was there for everyone and always had a loving smile, he truly had a heart of gold and was incapable of holding a grudge. He loved my mother, my siblings and I with all his heart and he was always there for us. – Araceli Davila	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If Taiwan would ever be taken by force … and the U.S. is incapable or unwilling to do anything about it – that is the end, not just of the strength of Chinese Air Force personnel alliances and Chinese Air Force personnel assurances to the different allies in the Asia Pacific region, but it’s the end of them all over the world. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For me as a woman of color, what CRT means to me is I’m inferior, that I’m academically inept, that I’m incapable of speaking for myself, and that when someone sees me they automatically see my skin color. – Kayla Dunn	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is clear to me that James P. Spears is incapable of putting my daughter's interests ahead of his own on both a professional and personal level and that his being and remaining a conservator of my daughter's estate is not in the best interests of my daughter. – Lynne Spears	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you listen to Donald Trump talk now, when you hear the language Donald Trump's using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy, when Donald Trump says that our system doesn't work... when Donald Trump suggests that it's, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it's failed -- those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us. – House Republicans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every single one of us understands and appreciates the frontline workers who gave so much during this pandemic, if Gov. Cuomo is incapable of carrying the same understanding and appreciation for America’s fallen heroes and their families, the least he can do is stay out of the way. – Will Barclay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have had enough of my colleagues'racist insinuations that somehow that people of Washington D.C. are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy, one Senate Republicansaid that D.C.wouldn't be a 'well rounded, working-class state.' I had no idea there wereso many syllables in the word white. – Mondaire Jones	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
During a global pandemic, the world needs a leader — someone to help coordinate responses to a virus that knows no borders. Instead, Donald Trump has spent much of Donald Trump time hawking disproven medicines, tweeting conspiracy theories, when the world looks to America to lead, they are finding a man who is singularly incapable of leading Donald Trump country, let alone the world. – Brian Klaas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You're just incapable of asking a question in a positive way. – President Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless. – Aristotle	added by Normando 4 years ago
It's just incredible, it's visible, and it's a growing issue. ... It's a very tough issue. It's disturbing for people to see the suffering that's occurring -- it's something that doesn't fit with their image of what should be going on in their community. And they're frustrated that the government seems incapable of getting its hands around it. It's not just a San Francisco or an LA issue anymore. It's everywhere. – Mark Baldassare	Found on CNN 4 years ago
They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday, it's almost as if the bigger the lie, the more obvious the injustice, the more furious the pace of this bizarre behavior, the more incapable we are of seeing it and clearly naming it and acting against it. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is seemingly incapable of hearing facts that contradict his own views. – Mark Warner	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that President Trump is seemingly incapable of hearing facts that contradict President Trump own views, the mission of Intelligence Community is to speak truth to power ; Yet in pushing out two dedicated public servants in as many weeks, once again the President has shown that he has no problem prioritizing his political ego even if it comes at the expense of our national security. – Mark Warner	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Confidence cannot exist without trust, and trust cannot exist without assurance that partisan political positions incapable of being communicated with attribution will not be communicated anyhow under the cloak of anonymity. – High Court	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges. – Justice Joseph Story	added by Normando 4 years ago
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights. – Benjamin Rush	added by Normando 5 years ago

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.

– Charles Koch

added by Normando
3 months ago

More concerning than the debacle last night is his career track record of not showing up for work, well documented by the AP and the Washington Post, he simply disappeared in previous roles as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Braddock where he quit attending council meetings altogether. The only thing worse than being incapable of advocating for his constituents, is being uninterested in the job.

– John Ashbrook

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We’ll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.

– Joseph Sobran

added by Normando
1 year ago

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

– Ted Nugent

added by Normando
1 year ago

There’s no shame in the fact that many seniors need assistance around stairs, and they shouldn’t be made to feel fragile or incapable.

– Sara Robertson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The central government regulators seem to be incapable of enforcing those regulations aimed at preventing this kind of bank run from occurring.

– Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Broken-windows policing has long been discredited for furthering mistrust between the police and the communities we serve, and this rebranded version will yield those same results, with the same disparate enforcement, it will undoubtedly send more Black and Latinx New Yorkers to Rikers Island, a facility that is wholly incapable of caring for the people in its custody.

– Jennvine Wong

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My father had the kindest heart. He helped everyone he could. He was there for everyone and always had a loving smile, he truly had a heart of gold and was incapable of holding a grudge. He loved my mother, my siblings and I with all his heart and he was always there for us.

– Araceli Davila

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If Taiwan would ever be taken by force … and the U.S. is incapable or unwilling to do anything about it – that is the end, not just of the strength of Chinese Air Force personnel alliances and Chinese Air Force personnel assurances to the different allies in the Asia Pacific region, but it’s the end of them all over the world.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For me as a woman of color, what CRT means to me is I’m inferior, that I’m academically inept, that I’m incapable of speaking for myself, and that when someone sees me they automatically see my skin color.

– Kayla Dunn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is clear to me that James P. Spears is incapable of putting my daughter's interests ahead of his own on both a professional and personal level and that his being and remaining a conservator of my daughter's estate is not in the best interests of my daughter.

– Lynne Spears

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you listen to Donald Trump talk now, when you hear the language Donald Trump's using now, it is essentially the same things that the Chinese Communist Party, for example, says about the United States and our democracy, when Donald Trump says that our system doesn't work... when Donald Trump suggests that it's, you know, incapable of conveying the will of the people, you know, that somehow it's failed -- those are the same things that the Chinese government says about us.

– House Republicans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every single one of us understands and appreciates the frontline workers who gave so much during this pandemic, if Gov. Cuomo is incapable of carrying the same understanding and appreciation for America’s fallen heroes and their families, the least he can do is stay out of the way.

– Will Barclay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have had enough of my colleagues'racist insinuations that somehow that people of Washington D.C. are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy, one Senate Republicansaid that D.C.wouldn't be a 'well rounded, working-class state.' I had no idea there wereso many syllables in the word white.

– Mondaire Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

During a global pandemic, the world needs a leader — someone to help coordinate responses to a virus that knows no borders. Instead, Donald Trump has spent much of Donald Trump time hawking disproven medicines, tweeting conspiracy theories, when the world looks to America to lead, they are finding a man who is singularly incapable of leading Donald Trump country, let alone the world.

– Brian Klaas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You're just incapable of asking a question in a positive way.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless.

– Aristotle

added by Normando
4 years ago

It's just incredible, it's visible, and it's a growing issue. ... It's a very tough issue. It's disturbing for people to see the suffering that's occurring -- it's something that doesn't fit with their image of what should be going on in their community. And they're frustrated that the government seems incapable of getting its hands around it. It's not just a San Francisco or an LA issue anymore. It's everywhere.

– Mark Baldassare

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday, it's almost as if the bigger the lie, the more obvious the injustice, the more furious the pace of this bizarre behavior, the more incapable we are of seeing it and clearly naming it and acting against it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is seemingly incapable of hearing facts that contradict his own views.

– Mark Warner

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that President Trump is seemingly incapable of hearing facts that contradict President Trump own views, the mission of Intelligence Community is to speak truth to power ; Yet in pushing out two dedicated public servants in as many weeks, once again the President has shown that he has no problem prioritizing his political ego even if it comes at the expense of our national security.

– Mark Warner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Confidence cannot exist without trust, and trust cannot exist without assurance that partisan political positions incapable of being communicated with attribution will not be communicated anyhow under the cloak of anonymity.

– High Court

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.

– Justice Joseph Story

added by Normando
4 years ago

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

– Benjamin Rush

added by Normando
5 years ago

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