Quotes About Accountability

Indeed, President Trump has proven himself the professional - the adult in the room as Democrats act like small children, incapable of stepping up to the task at hand and certainly incapable of leading the nation.

Irrespective of the tasks given to me, I have done my best to discharge my duties.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

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

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

We were the leaders of a company at the age of 15 with lawyers, tax advisers and managers around us, all on our payroll. A huge chunk of responsibility rested on our shoulders, which at the same time was a good thing since we hate superiors.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

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.

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.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?