Quotes About Trust

Our political leaders, our top generals, our military brass, our national security apparatus are grossly incompetent or, worse, corrupt.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said and done in his political life.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

DMK is the only political party that enjoys the confidence of the people.

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

Nothing undermines faith in our political system than politicians going back on their word.

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

As someone who's run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I'd be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.

I'm glad I'm not a politician.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.

Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn't vote for me.

The politician is your best friend - he always wants to be there when he's asking for your vote. But then, often, he doesn't have time for you when he gets into office. To me, it's the opposite. They should listen to you more when they're actually in office.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

I'm a very honest politician.

I'm not a politician; I don't have a well-organised PR machine to craft my every word.

I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a career politician.