Political Mistrust Quotes

This system stinks and every senator who participates in it knows it stinks. And the American people are right when they mistrust this system, when what matters most in seeking public office is not integrity, not ability, not judgment, not reason, not responsibility, not experience, not intelligence, but money …. Money dominates the system. Money infuses the system. Money is the system.

Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes.

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

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

The political elite has never told the truth.

The opponents of direct legislation and the recall, however they may phrase their opposition, in reality believe the people cannot be trusted.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?

Voters are naturally suspicious of politicians.

A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.

I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest.

It’s very hard for Iraqis to believe that we invaded Iraq to install democracy because in the first year of the occupation the Americans opposed the elections that Sistani and other Iraqis had called for….They think the motive was oil.

I have a hard time imagining a country or a government where I would say, "Oh, this is good," where I could live under a government that I respect for a day or a week, even to see what it feels like.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

We are fortunate in the fact that an amazingly large segment of the population, and even of his own party, seems to dislike and mistrust Nixon instinctively.

I work with the people in the piazza, where there is reality. Here in Parliament, often there is a mystification of reality. They are not representatives of the people. They represent themselves and their own interests.