Gary Coleman Quotes

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

You can't blame anyone for being cynical about politicians.

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.

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

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

Healthy skepticism is necessary to the continuation of our democracy. When it turns to paranoia, it becomes destructive. American history has alternated between the two .... A nation where cynicism toward government prevails cannot function effectively.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

The most patriotic and American thing you can do is to distrust your government

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.

All governments lie, including our own—under Democrats and Republicans.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.