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.
Al Franken
I have never, not once, violated my public trust.
Alan Mollohan
The problem with Egypt is that there is no public trust. There is no trust, period.
Andre Aciman
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.
Ari Melber
We can only have true public safety with public trust.
Betsy Hodges
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.
Bob Etheridge
During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
Carol Shea-Porter
I'm a big fan of public trust.
David Harbour
If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.
David Shulkin
All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.
Dennis C. Blair
Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.
DeRay Mckesson
Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.
Dominic Grieve
This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
Emanuel Celler
Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.
Eric Schneiderman
I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.
Geert Wilders
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
Janet Reno
The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.
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.
If you abuse the public trust, we're going to find you, and and we're going to prosecute you.
Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.
I will never take a day off policing the people we pay and keep a public trust with. I will use my camera, my pen, my pad, and my network to do my part, to make sure that Americans will no longer fear their government. Or its employees. They work for us - not the other way around.
The police are paid by the public and carry a public trust, and they take an oath to protect us as citizens. The police have lost sight of that and must be reminded that we pay them to protect us, not to simply engage and cage us.
Profitability, growth, and safeguards against existential risks are crucial to strengthening a company's long-term prospects. But if these three factors constitute a company's 'hard power,' firms also need 'soft power': public trust and acceptance, won by fulfilling a company's social responsibility.
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.
Public trust is essential to public safety.
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.
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.
The power to remove an individual from office is reserved for the greatest betrayals of public trust, not just because you disagree with someone.
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
Whether I'm reading a national publication or one of my local Chicago newspapers, I don't need to turn too many pages before I stumble upon another scandal. Not only do ethics violations deteriorate the public trust, but they also disrupt and undermine legitimate debate and policy.
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
It is now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth. In doing so, Bill Clinton not only committed perjury, he violated the public trust.
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
