Tax Responsibility Quotes

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

We should make sure that nobody, no corporation, and no individual can get away without paying his fair share to support America.

Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of 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.

I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

You want the guy driving a truck and the elderly to pay your share. You just want to pay zero taxes. Tell us right now what taxes are you are willing to pay.

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

I mean I imagine I could have done a better job with keeping my paperwork and paying my taxes. For the most part, everything happened exactly the way it should.

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?