Quotes About Ethics

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

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

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.

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in 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.

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

Lizzie Armitstead

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.

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?

Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of taxes and didn't believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.

When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

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

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.

If you don't want to do your job as a U.S. Senator, then please resign your seat and stop taking taxpayer money for a job you're not doing anymore.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.