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Ever-increasing surpluses allow us to provide for large tax cuts as well as shore up the solvency of the Social Security system, ... I think there is room to do both.

William Roth

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela's external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public sector.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Demand has surprised on the upside in key Chinese and Indian markets. This has combined with supply bottleneck at the smelters to switch our small surpluses in 2006 into small deficits.

Vicky Binns

China is not in pursuit of a trade surplus. On the contrary, the continuous growth in trade surpluses has become one of the major concerns of the government, as it helped increase China's foreign exchange reserves to US$760 billion, which has begun to affect the national economy.

Li Yushi

It's not good public policy for anyone in government to give themselves a raise. Your wisdom is compelling, mayor. It would be a good gesture to employees to see how the budget surpluses sort out.

Steve Turley

The challenge in the year ahead will be managing any surpluses that occur.

Mike Sackett

The possibility of big surpluses at Olympic time, I think, are not that probable. So why would these union leaders then give up their possibility of putting significant pressure on the government at the time of the Olympics?

John Fryer

The Gore approach to budget surpluses is much more prudent; the Bush approach to structural reforms of the entitlement programs is more promising. They have set up a good dichotomy that people can look at.

Robert Bixby

The good news is that the physical mechanics of the '02 farm bill worked. However, the federal government in 2002 was experiencing surpluses, and that isn't the circumstance now. A different environment exists now for the 2007 farm bill to be created, and there is still uncertainty of what it will look like.

Mike Conaway

You can argue that it's in everybody's interest to maintain a positive spin, but the point is the fundamentals in Indonesia and across the region are healthier than the case in 1997-98, particularly with most of the countries running current account surpluses and not dependent on borrowings from overseas.

David Cohen

People dare not price in the surpluses they see.

Deborah White

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Stuart Wilde

Those surpluses were virtually eliminated in about 18 months. So this is one of the reasons the governors are sort of concerned and really want to run surpluses of 5 to 6 percent.

Ray Scheppach

Even with surpluses, there remains a hard core of people who are unable to grow anything themselves, because they have no land or the household has been devastated by AIDS.

Mike Sackett

Because the economy is so strong, import growth is also very strong, and that import growth is eroding trade surpluses. Surpluses of more than a billion a month might be over.

Christian Stracke

It really is shocking if the trustees have been negligent and are forced to appoint a tribunal whose cost will come off the surpluses.

Mike Codron

For all residual risks to the pension plan ? both outcomes that lead to deficits and outcomes that lead to surpluses.

David Dodge

Those surpluses were virtually eliminated in about 18 months.

Ray Scheppach

It's obvious the new finance minister has very little discretion over the next several years. The Conservative fiscal plan of election 2006 exhausted virtually all fiscal surpluses in sight.

Dale Orr

How we use these surpluses in this moment of prosperity will determine America's future for decades to come. Nothing will more surely determine it than making the right choices.

Chelsea Clinton

International investors will always look for surpluses. If Canada continues to run surpluses, the fiscal program and a good economy and commodity prices will keep a luster on the Canadian dollar.

Reid Farrill