Quotes About Obligation

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

The wealthiest can afford to pay more in taxes. That's a part of the deal. That makes sense. I don't know anyone that doesn't agree with that.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

State government owes it to every taxpayer to be as fiscally responsible as possible.

What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

I should have stayed by Jill's side. That was my job, right?

A communiqué approved by the three leaders on Sunday morning affirmed their "sacred obligation" to maintain in peace the same Allied unity that had prevailed in war. A "declaration on liberated Europe" within the statement also endorsed "a world order under law" and "the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.

Two hundred thousand Americans sent in their WIN enlistment forms. Now that the campaign season was upon us, a reeling Republican Party had something to sell: collective obligation, in the key of homespun earnestness.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

Your family consists of the people you are bound by convention to love but learn to ignore.

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures