After sitting with the vice president in the White House, the Oval Office and the Cabinet room over six-and-a-half years, that he was consistently sound, sensible, practical and willing to fight for politically difficult issues,

The answer to that is no, … I think the strong dollar policy has served us exceedingly well over the past several years and still does.

I would say again now that China could be the largest economy in the world within the next few decades — though accomplishing that will be no easy task.

I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds...

The implications of Hurricane Katrina are clearly not positive for the Entergy enterprise, as the company’s operations were the hardest hit of any electric utility system,

The surpluses present an enormous opportunity and one that we must not squander, … We believe that the surpluses should be reserved until Social Security is placed on sound financial footing for the next century....

Size matters, and they [CSC] are a very large catch, … This could be a transformational acquisition.

help restore economic stability where needed.

I think the kinds of programs the IMF [International Monetary Fund] is putting in place are strong programs, I think they’re well designed for their purposes, and I think they should work,

You’ve got a lot of proposals that have been advocated by a lot of people,

The international community has a strong program. ? I think the key, however, is that the program is only as effective as the implementation. And I think that we have been in a very aggressive...

I do not think a tax cut contributes to our economic well-being,

There’s no incremental cost to the United States government in printing this bill again,

We are working hard to reform the IRS, and it would be counterproductive at best, and very harmful at worst, if these hearings undermined morale and damaged our efforts,

The new $20 note will be an important tool against would-be counterfeiters,

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.

It is vitally important for Latin America, the rest of the world and the United States that the international community take all steps sensible to limit the contagion that has come from the Asian financial...

I had three criteria: I didn’t want to be a CEO, I wanted to be involved with an institution I was proud of, and I wanted to be involved in an institution that was important...

the focus will be very largely on Japan and the urgent importance of Japan implementing effective measures to lead to a sustained, domestic, demand-led growth, which is critical not only for the Japanese people but...

Cardoso is absolutely committed to doing what needs to be done, and he has the support of the global community,

Economically, things are going well,

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.

I believe that support for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman is support for sound economic policy and a strong economy for years ahead, … I worked with Al Gore for six-and-a-half years … and I...

The fundamentals of the United States economy are strong due in part to the sound policies we’ve been following. The prospects for growth, low unemployment, low inflation continue to be strong.

Larry and I have been true partners through this whole period, and it’s been a wonderful, wonderful partnership,

The only role we can play is to continue to very actively work to persuade the Japanese government to face these very difficult issues they have to deal with,

Unfortunately, Russia hasn’t adopted the reforms it needs, but we need to work with them to see they adopt the reforms,

Had these kinds of requirements been in place before the current crisis began in 1997, the flows of capital might well have slowed at a much earlier stage, substantially reducing the severity of the crisis,

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, … In addition, the early warning...

is always a tool that’s available.

The hurricanes distorted a very good year.

The longer we don’t face them, the harder they get,

The key is that these are now longstanding problems, and it is going to take a concerted and very substantial effort over a sustained period of time for Japan to get back on track,

These students are an investment in the state’s future. The alternative is to deny them the opportunity to fully participate in our workforce.

I don’t have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about,

It focuses predominately on middle income tax cuts for education, and for child care and for savings, … This Week.

I’m sure that this will prove to be a phenomenon that is very complicated, involving tens or hundreds of genes.

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...

I don’t think we should rule out a change in the CPI if, based on technical analysis, there’s a broad-based agreement that the CPI can be changed in such a way as to better and...

This is a major world event and they have made extraordinary efforts,

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.

Our initial reaction is that we are intrigued by how this merger is going to be positioned and structured; in principal we think it could work as the deal is not simply two companies combining...

This isn’t a question of rewarding China, … A strong WTO agreement is very good for the United States.

We believe that any bank seeking to conduct new financial activities should be required to achieve and maintain a satisfactory CRA record, … The draft bill fails to include this requirement.

It is probably not a bad thing for somebody doing data entry, for instance, where the boredom and monotony of it takes a toll on performance.

I think the administration will have a Treasury secretary who is very established with the business community.

It is eminently doable,

The important thing is for countries to stay on a sensible economic path as the world works through a very difficult time. What Japan does is very important to the rest of the world,

This may be the most dramatic, most complicated and most significant economic transformation in modern history.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has estimated that in 1995 Americans spent roughly $300 billion on financial services … Even if increased competition were to lead to savings of just one percent, that’s $3 billion