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The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.
Sep 28, 2025
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.
The public trusts big data way too much.
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
I have never, not once, violated my public trust.
Public office is a public trust.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust.
They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea where they're coming from and they have no idea where they're going. And if that's the case, how can we as the public trust the NSA with all of our information, with all of our private records, the permanent record of our lives?
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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.
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust.
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.
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.
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.
There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.
There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.