Quotes by Gene Sperling

“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.”

“Were not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.”

“Were in a very deep hole on job market, ... Weve had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.”

“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.”

“I think theres a few tough nuts left to crack.”

“but Im actually quite confident that we will iron it out and ? that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon.”

“You cant want reform more than a country itself does.”

“President Bush takes the credit for a shallow recession, he denies any responsibility for an even more shallow economic recovery.”

“Were 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.”

“Its targeted toward people on welfare for a long time. It is not likely to just reward companies for people they would have hired anyway, but rather to provide those companies who are trying to do the right thing.”