Quotes About Financial disclosure

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that, let the buyer beware.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public.

app we particularly like is called Tally.13 (Full disclosure: Tally was started by Jason Brown, who, when he was a student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, took Thaler's class. We have no financial stake in his company.)

The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?

If you sign a big contract, everybody knows. They're going to print it in the paper. It's on ESPN. You can go online and check player salaries and all that. You're a target.

Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what your income is.

The Trump Foundation's tax returns are public. That's one thing. So we can look through them in a way that we can't look through his personal tax returns. They're publicly available going back to the beginning of the foundation, which is 1987.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed.

Last summer, after Groupon selected Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse to underwrite its initial public offering, the trio valued Groupon at a generous $30 billion. Subsequent accounting and disclosure problems showed this estimate to be absurdly high. But the banks didn't care a whit. The higher the valuation, the fatter their fees.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

In a footnote, Lawson further conceded that Rockefeller never put a dime into the Amalgamated flotation.

If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.

In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. It's a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.

I'm saying that when a publicly traded company says something doesn't make a difference in terms of their investments, I trust that they are representing those facts accurately.

Shockingly, the Government Accountability Institute has reported that the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns received questionable contributions of more than $500 million as a result of poor disclosure requirements.