Quotes About Ethics

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

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

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

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

Don't allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

Any reduction in the corporate tax rate must also come with closing loopholes that have allowed the largest businesses in our country to pay less than they owe.

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

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.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

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.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

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

Kids, don't do drugs, and pay your taxes.

Everybody should pay taxes.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

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.

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