To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.