89 Quotes by John W. Snow

We have been taking a very close look at its lines of business and believe there is a clear opportunity to unlock more value by running Sea-Land's three key components as distinct profit centers.

We can afford an increase in the deficit for a year or so,

We're not going to have numbers to write home about in the first quarter, although they will show improvement, ... The first quarter will continue to have some residue from the difficulties of the fourth quarter, but nothing of the magnitude. We're starting to get our arms around it.

We recognize that the deficit matters, that we need to keep on a path to cut the deficit in half.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

The deficits are modest, manageable, and will recede to zero,

Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

We will continue to look hard at the situation and try and evaluate whether or not sufficient progress is being made,

We would expect some continuing moderation in the energy market, ... But it's clear the United States has to be less dependent on supplies from abroad.