Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

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

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

One hallmark of our era is the collapse of public trust in government and experts of all kinds. But it’s hard to fault the public when so many experts and their policies have failed in such spectacular fashion. The inflation that progressives helped to cause, failed to anticipate, and then ignored is one more example of earned public distrust.

I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

Most people have a healthy disrespect for politicians.

We don’t trust the U. S. government.

We ought to remain skeptical of our own institutions.

Evidence that has surfaced has cast a black cloud of distrust over our entire society. 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.

The United States is living through an era of unprecedented elite failure, in which America’s public institutions are understandably distrusted and our leadership class is justifiably despised. Yet politicians of both parties are required, by the demands of partisanship, to embrace the convenient lie that our problem can be pinned exclusively on the other side’s elites — as though both liberals and conservatives hadn’t participated in the decisions that dug our current hole.

Historically our government—the FBI for example—has not always earned that trust.

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.