Quotes About Distrust

Consumers and retailers should always beware of imitators.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

I don't believe in credit or loans.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.

I'm an old cynic.

Personally, I'm such a cynic.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

England's just very cynical.

I have a big cynical side to me.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

Boxing fans are a very cynical bunch.

I'm not cynical at all.

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he's lying, but he wants to make sure you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.

I've got to think about this. I thought Abbot was a stand-up guy, but how well do I know him outside of the few deals we've made? He's the Augur. Power is his business. Everything else is secondary. Including me and a load of nine-to-five civilians downtown. I need to think about this more. But mostly I've got to watch my back. If something happens to me, what happens to Janet and Candy and the others?

No. You open it." "You think I put a bomb in there? Maybe snakes? Maybe a snake bomb?