break trust

“Because my past relationships lacked physical closeness and nonsexual intimacy, arguments and problems would more easily break trust, loyalty and other important values,” Ms. Belle said.

“But we got them on the ropes. That rope will break, trust me. And they will fall.”

“The way we maintain that is preventing behaviors that hurt our soldiers and break trust with the American people. Behaviors like extremism, racism, sexual harassment and sexual assault — they hurt our soldiers and they break trust with the American people so we cannot have them in our Army.”

“You wouldn’t hire a person who’s been convicted of fraud or espionage to be your county auditor because they have a propensity to break trust.”

“We have to earn back that trust. It is easy to break trust, it is not easy to earn it back. We have to humbly recognize this is not something that just gets fixed and you go back to the way it was before.”