Top 30 Public Trust Quotes

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

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.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

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.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

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

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

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.

I’m a big fan of public trust.

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

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

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

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.

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.

I have never, not once, violated my 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.

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

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.

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

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

Public trust is essential to public safety.

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

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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

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.

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