Quotes About Distrust

The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the metal detector, I was looking at my duffel bag, and I'm like, 'Do I have anything that's like a weapon?' I was really paranoid they were gonna find something sharp, and I was gonna get in trouble.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

I don't have much faith... in the government police.

I don't want to play police games. When you start playing police games, I take myself out of the equation.

There's nothing really to talk about with the police. I mean, for what?

I'm not going to play with the police.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

For me, if I was walking down the street and saw a politician, I'd cross the street and walk the other way intentionally, just to not have to talk to them.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

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?

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.

I hate all politicians equally.

I think all politicians lie.

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.