Quotes About Transparency

Selecting about 100 judges of the higher judiciary every year in a rational and fair manner is an onerous task requiring a full-time and not an ex-officio body. An ex-officio body of sitting judges and ministers cannot devote the kind of time required for this job.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI.

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.

I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it's a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

When you know the truth is on your side, when you have dutifully paid all your taxes, but you are still targeted for non-payment of dues, then what do you do? You grin and bear the harassment because you have nothing to hide.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

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

I'm gonna watch the taxpayers' money like I was elected to do.