Kevin Brady Quotes

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

Politics for me is when I feel a personal engagement between people: I don't trust politicians.

We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

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

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.

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

Public confidence in the elective process is the foundation of public confidence in government.

We are told that during times of crisis we must trust the president. Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Politics has almost become an increasingly pejorative term in our culture. "Politicking" is not something to which we attribute a lot of value, but that itself is a major issue and a problem, and it is a decline in public culture, to have come to that point.

Why is there so much resistance among people who work in the Government to the seemingly obvious fact that, in our democracy, if the Government lies, it will eventually get caught

We don’t even realize that we do not know who is running our country.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

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

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.