John W. Snow
John W. Snow
John William Snowwas the CEO of CSX Corporation, and served as the 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul O'Neill on February 3, 2003 and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3, 2006, in a move that had been anticipated. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30, 2006, effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on June 29, 2006 that he had completed...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth2 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
To say we have a roadmap would be too grandiose a characterization, ... We do have a long list of things that are being worked on that we're suggesting need to be dealt with.
We need to get sober-minded people looking at the facts and realizing that if we wait it becomes impossible to deal with the situation,
We will continue to look hard at the situation and try and evaluate whether or not sufficient progress is being made,
The President I know is one who is fully engaged, who does ask tough questions, who pesters me all the time with questions.
It's up to the Treasury Department to take the report, review it carefully, understand the implications and use the report as a starting place for recommendations that we will make to the president,
The banking sector overall remains healthy and strong.
It may be harder on some than on others, but overall the banking sector remains healthy and strong,
It's gratifying to see our persistence and commitment pay off,
It's important that competitive balance be a part of the final outcome,
It's clear the potential of the financial sector to play a larger role in the economy is enormous,
It offers the opportunity for far-reaching structural reforms, ... We trust and hope that the measure will be successful.
What we're dealing with in Iraq are not two-and-a-half weeks of conflict, but two-and-a-half decades of misrule and mismanagement, and there's a major reconstruction product that has to go on there,
We believe that more financial flexibility is in the best interests of our shareholders and will increase the company's value over the long term,
Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.