Quotes About Trust

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be no great armaments.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.