Jacob J. Lew

I think right now, when you look at what our debt is, our deficit, annual deficit, is essentially interest on the debt.

The real goal is not to restructure the debt. The real goal is to get back to economic growth.

I don't think there is an urgent crisis. I don't think Americans should worry that their Social Security won't be there.

The earned income tax credit is one of the most effective programs we have had, both to reduce poverty and to get people.

Three-and-a-half million Americans, including veterans, deserve our immediate attention.

When we took office, the projections were the debt was going to grow to over 100 percent of GDP.

The American people deserve to have an IRS with the resources so that, when you pick up the phone and call the IRS, there is a person at the other end to answer it.

We need to support the people at the IRS so that they can run a tax system that is worthy of our country.

I have always thought that the sooner we could have a bipartisan conversation on dealing with Social Security, the better.

It is critically important for the peace of the world and the United States that Iran not get nuclear weapons.

If the intellectual content and the innovation is in the United States, there is a substantial tax due in the United States when that money comes home.

We inherited what was an economy and a budget that was in complete meltdown.