You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

Anytime the president lies, he undermines his authority and squanders the public's trust,

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.