Trust Crisis Quotes

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Many people no longer trust major media outlets to give them valuable information - and they may never do so again.

We have to entrust power to someone, but nobody can be entrusted with power. That is our dilemma.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

If you can't trust your coke dealer, who can you trust?

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

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

There is close to zero trust in institutions in Afghanistan. The mobile carriers have more trust than the banks.

In the Middle East persons were more trusted than institutions.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

Justin Trudeau had a message of asking Canadians to have trust in our immigration system. The problem is Canadians don't have trust in the Liberals to manage it.