Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.

We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.

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.

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

I will rebuild the people's trust in government and create a stable foundation for Taiwan's future development.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Healthy skepticism is necessary to the continuation of our democracy. When it turns to paranoia, it becomes destructive. American history has alternated between the two .... A nation where cynicism toward government prevails cannot function effectively.

We believe in American government, and we fully expect that those who now denigrate it, and even despise it, will soon or late find themselves turning to it in necessity, even desperation.

it does not make any difference whether it were the Republican or Democratic Party. It is the business of the party in power to face the American Nation, stand responsible for the conduct of its administration, and to give the people of this Nation a prosecution in this case that will restore the confidence of the people not in the party in power merely, or any party, but in their Government, in the integrity of their public officials.

The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections

A decent and manly examination of the acts of Government should be not only tolerated but encouraged.

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

I've always had a kind of knee-jerk trust in my Government's basic integrity, whatever political blunders it may make. But I've come to realize that in Washington, deceiving and manipulating the public are viewed by some as the natural prerogatives of office.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation

We get what we deserve if we allow our policy-making representatives vote on laws they haven’t read and don’t fully understand.

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

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.