Government Distrust Quotes

People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know that what you hear in Congress is 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on.

… no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support

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

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

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

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Our citizens do not know whom to believe, and many of them have concluded that all the processes of government have become so compromised that honest government has been rendered impossible.

Love your country, but never trust its government.

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

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.

Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

The Senate is no longer a place for any decent man. I am truly sick of Congress.

Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

The FBI doesn't get a dime until [James] Comey is gone. George [W.Bush] tried to warn us he was a trouble maker but did Barack [Obama] listen? Nooo!

... a distrust of the popular will as a safe regulator of political power.

I want to protect consumers from their government.

You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith in government. If you're a liberal, it's just going to be tough. And you should just expect that. And it's tough for people on the right, too, because they don't get what they want either if you're, say, a libertarian. So, you have got the country sort of against you. And, nevertheless, you have a president.

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'

Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.