financial scrutiny Quotes

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

We're going after the possibilities of tax fraud, insurance fraud, securities fraud. We're going to look at this stuff very closely. We have the jurisdiction, we have the resources, and we have the will.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

I have never been reimbursed at the federal level. Never want to be in a million years. To me, it's just not worth the red flag.

Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.

The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

If I find out where every dollar goes, and how it is used, I shall understand the apparatus thoroughly.

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

If the value of a company doesn't just scream out at you, it's too close.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is - I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out.

I've been under audit almost for 15 years.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'

There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.