And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance. John W. Snow More Quotes by John W. Snow More Quotes From John W. Snow Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now. John W. Snow perspective moving thinking And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid. John W. Snow coal energy country You don't fix the problem until you define it. John W. Snow problem 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. John W. Snow opportunities well own investment The global economy is in pretty good shape. John W. Snow shape pretty good economy 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. John W. Snow down year where knows Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. John W. Snow say some security mean Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check. John W. Snow think inflation welcome growth And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people. John W. Snow you growth work people
