Quotes About Government

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.

If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both in the literal sense and with regard to our intelligence services. He shouldn't have access to these briefings.

We have this tradition of the Second Amendment and people's rights to self-defense and a certain suspicion that the government can't be trusted.

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

I trusted the American justice system too much, and shared that trust with people from European countries. We all have an idea about how the democratic system works.

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

Stop trusting neo-liberal theories, and realize what happens when neo-liberals take over.

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.

We believe in a government that trusts people and doesn't limit where you finish because of where you started.

Government transparency and efficiency start with a trustworthy team.

I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.

The truth is that development of public transport facilities needs government funding or cheap loans.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.