Gene Sperling Quotes (29 Quotes)

President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.

A tax cut that is 800 billion or 500 billion is an irresponsible tax cut that would threaten our ability to pay down the debt, secure Medicare, Social Security and education, ... Fox News Sunday.

If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated.

What does it say about their priorities and their values that they tax the poorest families ... as their preferred solution to escape the budgetary mess they created for themselves.

We're not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.

It would be better to do nothing and pay down 100 billion of our national debt than to sign a large and irresponsible tax cut that would signal to the world that the era of fiscal discipline in the United States is over, ... Meet The Press.

The president is very much looking forward to his visit here, to speaking to the people of Seattle, to the people of the United States.

You can't want reform more than a country itself does.

If having a separate vote on tax cuts turns out to be a means of getting a bipartisan balanced-budget agreement, we're open to that.

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

Let's keep our economy strong, let's keep our interest rates low. That's the smart thing to do. And, if things work out better in the future, then we'll have more money for a tax cut, ... Late Edition.

You guys are shameless, ... Fox News Sunday.

A down payment by the United States of 1 billion would provide further momentum. This down payment would make it possible for more than 10 million children to go to school and ensure that our country is contributing at least as much as the United Kingdom.

The options that Vice President Gore is calling for today are very much among those options that President Clinton does feel are on the table and is considering,

It's targeted toward people on welfare for a long time. It is not likely to just reward companies for people they would have hired anyway, but rather to provide those companies who are trying to do the right thing.

This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,

If you want to look at who is criticizing their economic plan, the most powerful criticisms came (Sunday) from Republicans Warren Rudman and Pete Peterson -- who rightfully noted that voters should beware of the technical voodoo and rosy scenarios and large increases in the deficit that we are about to see.

Many of the members of the faculty who oppose him have never fully appreciated the degree that he is someone who is very open to criticism, to reconsidering his positions, to frank discussion.

The president is saying through his plan that by saving instead of squandering the surpluses brought on by our discipline and prosperity, we can address much of our long-term retirement challenge in a way that lifts that burden off our children and grandchildren.

There's unquestionably been some very real differences of opinion on areas that we think are critical to regaining economic strength in the region, and we'll speak candidly and frankly to those individual matters.

I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public,

The governor laid out a framework for him and the legislative leadership to work on, ... The issue is now for them to work out the proposal.

We've always understood that once you've agreed on the size and principles of the tax cut, you have to compromise with both Republican and Democratic members of Congress as to its composition.

In the last three months, the economic performance was disappointing for middle-class families and below expectations -- the results that have become the norm for the economy under President Bush.

but I'm actually quite confident that we will iron it out and that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon.

I would say the question is not whether we're going to have growth or productivity, because I believe we will have both, but whether or not that will lead to a strengthening of the middle class or a hollowing out of the middle class.

A 1.4 percent across-the-board cut will not do well enough to make sure that we can balance our budget without going into Social Security. We estimate it would have to be a 9 percent across-the-board cut.

In the end, there will be a successful launch of this round. The differences that exist now will get ironed out in the late- hour negotiations.

We're in a very deep hole on job market, ... We've had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.