"We are going to do everything we can to take away that ill-begotten gain because that is the way we view it."
"Unless the U.S. Government already knows the names of specific taxpayers, the Swiss treaty generally cannot be used to get information in Switzerland about a U.S. person."
"It is questionable whether we can continue to hide tax evaders behind banking secrecy."
"UBS has committed wrongdoing by its own acknowledgment by referring U.S. clients who wanted to hide their assets to outside firms."
"It is absurd that any country wants to make money off our loss of tax revenues, particularly friends."
"And, again, these structures were being set up for the purpose of hiding who the true owner or beneficiary of the accounts were."
"You agreed in court that, acting through your bankers and managers, you 'participated in a scheme to defraud the United States of America.'"
"Generally it needs to have a specific taxpayer."
"The IRS is investigating U.S. taxpayers who failed to report the existence of Swiss bank accounts--or income earned on those accounts."
"I do not know why I cannot get direct answers here. Your answers are needlessly evasive, it seems to me."
"Our focus should not just be on U.S. residents with securities accounts, but it should include non-resident U.S. citizens with securities accounts."