We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around. |
We had two objectives from the very beginning: No. 1, to get a strong WTO accession agreement that's good for the United States, and No. 2, to handle it in such a way as to have the highest probability of success in Congress, |
We have felt from the very beginning that since the problems of Mexico in 1995, that what happens in Latin America is profoundly important for the United States, |
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world. |
We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites. |
With the safeguards we have proposed, ... subsidiaries and affiliates are absolutely identical with respect to the ability of a bank to transfer any subsidy that may exist in the bank. |
You've got a lot of proposals that have been advocated by a lot of people, |