Quotes About Responsibility

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

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

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

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.

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

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.

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

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

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

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.

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

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.

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny... You give my son back, and I'll pay my taxes.

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

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.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

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