Quotes About Distrust

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

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.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

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

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.

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.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.