Bill Scott Quotes

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

I hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

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

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.

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.

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.