If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.
~By Melissa Bean ~
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
~By Carl Levin ~
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
~By Billy Connolly ~
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
~By Fernando Flores ~
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
~By Rita Dove ~
I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
~By Gary Burghoff ~
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~By Albert Claude ~
Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?
~By Kim Deal ~
I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
~By Cher ~
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
~By Alan Watts ~
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
~By Piers Anthony ~
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.
~By Gina Gershon ~
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
~By Mike Farrell ~
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
~By Sallust ~
I don't really trust a sane person.
~By Lyle Alzado ~
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
~By Tom Daschle ~
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
~By Samuel Butler ~
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
~By Bryan Singer ~
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
~By Euripides ~
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.
~By Josefa Iloilo ~
If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
~By Denzel Washington ~
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
~By Jonathan Brown ~
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
~By Joseph Roux ~
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
Trust in God - she will provide.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
~By Horace ~
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
~By George MacDonald ~
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.
~By Richard Fleeshman ~
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
~By Geronimo ~
Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
~By Mike Tyson ~
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~By John Adams ~
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
~By James Herriot ~
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
~By Travis Tritt ~
If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust.
~By Shigenori Maruyama ~
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Trust the tale, not the teller.
~By David Knopfler ~
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
~By Jose Marti ~
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
~By Hugo Black ~
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.
~By William Windham ~
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
~By Terry Prachett ~
That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
~By Boris Becker ~
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~By Francis Bacon ~
You can never trust what you read.
~By William Goldman ~
I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other.
~By Virgil Thomson ~
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
~By Lord Byron ~
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
~By Confucius ~
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
~By John Boehner ~
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
~By D. Elton Trueblood ~
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
~By Ben Maddow ~
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
~By Dan Simmons ~
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
~By Rob Glaser ~
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
God has entrusted me with myself.
~By Epictetus ~
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
~By James Cash Penney ~
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.
~By Charles Dibdin ~
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.
~By George B. McClellan ~
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
~By Ethel Merman ~
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.
~By Lynn Westmoreland ~
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
~By John Trumbull ~
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
~By Fay Wray ~
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