Quotes About Trust

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

You can take off a football jersey, but you can never take off your faith. That goes with you everywhere.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10 hours or 12 hours for the front page of the 'New York Times' and to know that they trust you so much that that it's going to lead the paper?' It's hard. I mean, it's a feat.

No news is good news.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

A lot of people don't want to get bad news.

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.

I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.

I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.