Public trust Quotes · Page 2

If you abuse the public trust, we're going to find you, and and we're going to prosecute you.

— Josh Hawley

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

— Anonymous

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.

— Ari Melber

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.

— Andre Aciman

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

— John McCain

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

— Kate Brown

“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.”

— Raymond Dirks

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has…

— Michael Moore

There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will…

— Stephen Harper

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

— Mike Quigley

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for…

— John Hickenlooper

In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.

— Mike Quigley

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed…

— Al Franken

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and…

— John C. Calhoun

“I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark…

— Akio Morita

All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains…

— Dennis C. Blair

I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not…

— Linda Ty-Casper

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,…

— Edmund Burke

I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my…

— Killer Mike

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust…

— Barack Obama

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars,…

— Nancy Gibbs

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

— Anonymous

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

— DeRay Mckesson

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

— Alexander Hamilton

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

— Mike Medavoy

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

— Mike Quigley

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

— Grover Cleveland

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

— Sonny Perdue

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

— Charles Sumner

Public health relies on public trust. Admitting mistakes and explaining prompt corrective actions engender that trust.

— Leana S. Wen

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

— Ken Cuccinelli

The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree…

— Michael Tubbs

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And…

— Anonymous