Distrust Government Quotes

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

Conservatives have deep distrust of government power, so I not only understand their privacy concerns, I share them.

To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

In much of the democratic world, citizens lack any confidence that politicians, political parties, or government officials are serving anyone other than themselves.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

I don't have much faith... in the government police.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

The American people, I think, are tired of being told. They're tired of being told this is as good as it gets. They're tired of being told, like Ronald Reagan used to say, that little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives better for us than we can plan them for ourselves.

To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").