I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.
Policy flip-flops debase the currency of United States credibility.
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
Government is not guaranteed to work right.
I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.
How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
I choose to make it my job to not automatically believe what the U.S. government says.
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it.
It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
