The important thing here is that we build a constructive relationship with China and with our other trading partners, |
The initial steps by China to increase its exchange rate flexibility played an important part in this decision, |
The landmark corporate responsibility legislation enacted under his leadership ? and which bears his name ? shored up investors in the face of events which shook their confidence, |
The laws must ensure that those who would shirk their civic responsibilities cannot do so by exploiting unintended loopholes, and the IRS must ensure that taxpayers do not engage in abusive tax avoidance transactions, |
The most important factor leading to our trade deficit is that the U.S. economy has had much higher rates of economic growth and job creation than our major trading partners over the past decade, |
The President I know is one who is fully engaged, who does ask tough questions, who pesters me all the time with questions. |
The unemployment numbers [are] not where they should be, the economy is not growing as it should, |
The United States is doing its part, |
Their advice is the starting point, and I look forward to reading their recommendations and considering them carefully before I make a recommendation to the president, |
There are difficult tradeoffs, |
There's broad acceptance of the desirability of doing all those things, setting up risk-based management, dealing with fraud, putting place good capital market oversight, ... moving, over time, more of the economy out of the state-run sector in both banking and other sectors and into the private market-directed sector. |
There's no doubt about the fact they create headwinds for the economy, |
These are bold recommendations, ... These are recommendations that will challenge orthodoxy in a lot of ways on tax policy. |
These extraordinarily high energy prices are a negative, ... They're hurting the recovery and they're extremely unwelcome and it's time...for the Senate to go back to work and pass the president's energy bill. |
These results are disappointing. Our rail and container-shipping businesses are taking steps to regain earnings momentum by lowering costs and improving efficiency, |