Bill Gates said Sunday that ultra-wealthy people like him should be paying “significantly” higher taxes.

“ “I need to pay higher taxes.” ” — Bill Gates

“I’ve paid more taxes, over $10 billion, than anyone else, but the government should require the people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes,” the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.24% told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview Sunday.