Carlos Gutierrez

Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez was Thursday's guest. Here are excerpts from his remarks:

"Everything suggests that we should be able to get through this period without seeing inflation increase to a point where it would become a problem."

"I love serving the president in the job I am doing and serving the country. I haven't given it much thought."

"This is probably the social/domestic issue of our time and unless we tackle it, confront it, solve it in a comprehensive way, we are just going to let the problem get bigger and more complex."

"There are a lot of values that attract Latinos and Hispanics to the Republican Party.... The leader of the Republican Party has believed in this issue and has been a staunch proponent of comprehensive reform from the time he was governor of Texas.... [T]he symbol of the Republican Party is President Bush and that is what I believe will attract Latinos and Hispanics to the Republican Party."

"Overall it has been a positive thing. Where we need to be very vigilant ... is with small business [so we don't put these businesses] at a competitive disadvantage."