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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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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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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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.
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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.
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we can save for another day whether you also have a broader, larger tax cut that affects well-off Americans.
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I believe the administration may have been successful in the short term at hoodwinking the public,
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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.
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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.
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You guys are shameless, ... Fox News Sunday.
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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.
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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,
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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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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.