Trusting Government Quotes & Sayings

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home. — Bill Maher

Now you're an adult, Katya! he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born. — Jonathan L. Howard

Replace all your religious activities with personal growth. — Sunday Adelaja

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. — George Will

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government. — George Bernard Shaw

I figured the government wouldn't let poison flow from the taps. But in general, I'm too trusting of the government. I'm the polar opposite of the Tea Partiers. I have no problem with a nanny state. But in this case, the nanny state has been chatting on the cell phone and ignoring the baby as it plays with matches. — A. J. Jacobs

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived. — Seth Godin

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

Instead of challenging the status quo and trusting in your own abilities, they would rather you trust in government. — Eric Bolling

People start talking about you and spreading false information, and it can really affect your spirit. So faith is very important to me. — Rochelle Aytes

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. — Bill Shankly

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. — Leo Tolstoy

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. — Rob Portman

You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams. — Rick Trevino

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. — Rick Santorum

Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things. — John McCain

The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives. — James Bovard

The successful painter is continually painting still life. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween. — Mary Page Keller

We can't get better, none of us, unless we face our past. — Riley Hart

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it. — Lydia M. Child

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. — George Bernard Shaw

He does miracles when we need them - not for our entertainment or to make us feel "spiritual. — Craig S. Keener

Democracy is a continuous, open process of civility.
A democracy can never be "done"; updating democracy can never be over.

Democracy can be nothing else but a continuous process, because we use it to organize our life, and life is nothing but a continuous process.

Democracy can be compared to an operating system or an anti-virus software; if it does not get perpetually updated, it becomes obsolete very fast.

Trusting the updates or the "improvements" of democracy to the elected and the owned mass media is like trusting the updates of an anti-virus program to virus creators; it defeats the purpose of updates or improvements. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism. — Moliere

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory. — Doug Casey

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith ... — Sue Halpern