Gene Sperling Quotations

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

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.

If having a separate vote on tax cuts turns out to be a means of getting a bipartisan balanced-budget agreement, we're open to that.

We want to provide an incentive for the auto industry and the American consumer to produce and purchase the cars of the future.

It would be better to do nothing and pay down $100 billion of our national debt than to sign a large and irresponsible tax cut that would signal to the world that the era of fiscal discipline in the United States is over, ... Meet The Press.

They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.

It's 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.

We're in a very deep hole on job market, ... We've had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.

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.

This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,