6 George W. Bush Quotes on Trust

George W. Bush quotes on trust

26. Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

117. I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it.

162. In all due respect, I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations about - oh, never mind.

416. America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens.

444. I do not believe that the President was in any way directly involved in the leaking of her identity, but that was a very disillusioning moment for me when I found out when it initially hit the press, and I was in North Carolina, if I remember correctly, and a reporter shouted out to the President, 'Is it true that you authorized the secret leaking of this classified information?' We walked onto Air Force One, and the Presidents asks, 'What was the reporter asking?', and I said, 'He asserted that you were the one who authorized Scooty Libby leaking this information,' and he said, 'Yeah, I did.'

445. As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.

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