Such input has become a valuable way to temper traditional public mistrust toward the government, which historically didn't make much effort to include the public in any of its internal discussions.

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So you should be wise enough to know that if you don't explain what you are doing, people will mistrust you.

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Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

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Bureaucracy is guided by the same mistrust of free enterprise as 20 years ago, he said: it frightens business so that it doesn't do the wrong thing, controls the media so that they don't say the wrong thing and interferes in elections so that voters don't back the wrong person.

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