Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion.

I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

Can the public business be thus transacted and in secret?

From now on, the government has to make its accounts public on a quarterly basis.

Misrepresentation of public Measures is easily overthrown, by representing public Measures truly; when they are honest, they ought to be publicly known, that they may be publicly commended, but if they are knavish or pernicious, they ought to be publicly exposed, in order to be publicly detested.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.

The American people deserve to know what's on Trump's tax returns. And Trump must show that he truly embraces accountability and transparency and understands what it means to work on behalf of the public interest.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

Why would I want anything that's private to become entertainment for other people?

As chancellor, I am - as it should be - constantly under the microscope from both the public and the media. It is also important to me that my staff tells me openly how they see things. And an additional good indicator is the mood in my own electoral district. When I am there, which happens frequently, no one is particularly excited or impressed anymore to meet the chancellor. People there tell me immediately what is going well and what isn't.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.