Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
Eugene "Gene" B. Sperlingis an American economist, who was Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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We're not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.
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We want to provide an incentive for the auto industry and the American consumer to produce and purchase the cars of the future.
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but I'm actually quite confident that we will iron it out and ? that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're all continuing to focus like a laser beam on the economy. And that means not sitting around and patting yourself on the back because unemployment and inflation rates are low.
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One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.