Government Trust Quotes
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Grover Cleveland, George Mason, Henry Clay, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
Bush had stated when he was running for President that he was opposed to placing America’s nuclear waste in the Nevada mountain which was very unpopular with Nevada voters, but once in the Presidency he changed his position. The reason might have been that there was no backup plan to Yucca Mountain that Bush could select. It was wither Nevada or back to the drawing board with radioactive waste piling up each day.
I will never again listen to the advice of the French … nor of anyone except the British Government.
As a young man, upon the death of his father in 1856, he tried to sieze the throne from his older brother upon the advice of the French. The British Consul with a detachment of Royal Marines put down the coup, but saved his life by not turning him over to his brother. Later he assumed the throne and tended to follow the British line.
He addressed the Prince in the Royal 3rd person “the Prince” instead of saying “You”, the 2nd more familiar person. “Stadtholder” meant Chief Executive and Ruler. Bentinck was the Stadtholder of a Province. Prince William was Stadtholder of all of Holland. Bentinck was one of the few politicians who could and would be so candid with the Stadtholder whose cronies and friends were aristocrats who had much damaged the state and were very unpopular. William did not act and died shortly thereafter. The House of Orange and the Orangists, despite strong English support, were turned out in the Dutch Revolution.
We live in a time where people are losing confidence in the ability of Government to solve problems.
The public confidence in government had hit an historical low during the administration of George W. Bush during which his administration was riddled with ideologues who had little competence and less inclination to solve problems. However even in those cases where the Bush administration wanted to succeed, they usually failed producing such fiascos as Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, shipping nuclear weapons components my mistake to Taiwan, illegal disclosure of the identity of CIA covert agents, and others.
