Current situation Quote by Eric Alterman

It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an…

— Joe Biden

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

— George Will

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So…

— David Duchovny

I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or…

— Rick Famuyiwa

As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.

— Mark Meadows

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in…

— Charles Krauthammer

There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven government in…

— Michael Scheuer

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

— Ben Shapiro

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

— Harold Pinter

There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart…

— Charlie Pierce