Chris Christie Quotes

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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.

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

I am inheriting a country which has been badly ravaged by years of misrule and ineptitude. There has been a wide disconnect between the people and the government.

I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.

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

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

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

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

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.

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

That's why people don't have respect for our national leaders. Because our national leaders don't respect the people and the needs of people of our cities.

We don’t trust the U. S. government.

We live in a time where people are losing confidence in the ability of Government to solve problems.