Pastoral Resources

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

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.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

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

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

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.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.