If you don't use power to got things done, it contributes to public cynicism.

But it almost certainly guarantees an increase in public cynicism, and that is never a good thing.

Its success - unlike the public cynicism it generated - proved hard to identify.

This money has contributed heavily to public cynicism about the integrity of the democratic process.

But he is also angered by the level of public cynicism about the Legislature and the state itself.

But public cynicism might soften now that Ellerbe has been named.

He called it "a time of great public cynicism and skepticism of my office."

A lack of a collective response is feeding public cynicism and political nihilism.

"That's what fuels public cynicism about the likelihood of reform and makes it a lower priority."

But there is no good reason for the linkage, which now only feeds public cynicism.