Quotes About Skepticism

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

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.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

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.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

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.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

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.

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

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

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

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

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.