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The power to investigate is a great public trust. -- Emanuel Celler
I have never, not once, violated my public trust. -- Alan Mollohan
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust. -- Mike Medavoy
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. -- Thomas Jefferson
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. -- Steve Squyres
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust. -- Ruth Simmons
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. -- Irving R. Kaufman
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. -- Peter Ueberroth
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
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
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
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. -- John Boehner
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. -- Michael Moore
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. -- Mike Quigley
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
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. -- Marc Andreessen
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. -- Nancy Gibbs
Public office is a public trust. -- Daniel S. Lamont
The 'public' scares me, but people I trust. -- Marilyn Monroe
You should never trust a person who prays in public. -- Stephen King
It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis. -- Richard E. Besser
Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public. -- Benjamin Whichcote
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The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors. -- Alex Berenson
You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public. -- Jim Burke
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. -- Charles Sumner
At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust. -- John McCain
Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public. -- Steve Squyres
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public. -- Tony Blair
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy. -- Hillary Clinton
I think the entire pharmaceutical industry has a lot of work to do to restore public trust. -- Kenneth C. Frazier
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite. -- Grover Cleveland
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust. -- Ruth Simmons
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust. -- Mike Quigley
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. -- Robert Bloch
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims. -- Wesley Clark
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. -- Irving R. Kaufman
[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. -- Alexander Hamilton
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. -- Dalton Trumbo
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. -- James Madison
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 masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. -- Ludwig von Mises
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. -- Edmund Randolph
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust. -- Bill Bradley
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. -- Douglas Alexander
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! -- Sarah
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. -- Millard Fillmore
I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public. -- Billy Tauzin
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. -- John Adams
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. -- Richard Branson
When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee. -- Albert J. Nock
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 -- Senator John Kerry
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. -- John F. Kerry
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. -- Grover Cleveland
All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed. -- Stephen F. Hayes
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, -- Stephen Harper
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. Bartlett Giamatti
Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party. -- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

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