Quotes About Trust

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

The essence of good government is trust.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.