Quotes About Government

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new government. That will be difficult, but it is possible.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

Can any traditionally organized government withstand the ideological forces of a technologically empowered proletariat? Call them tweetmobs, blogmobs, txtmobs or simply citizen publishers—everyone has a voice, and no matter how the government tries to silence them, in the Information Age, information will find a way.