Jacob J. Lew

The Dodd-Frank Act is working very well and has very much reduced the risk in the system.

We need to do both. And we also need to pursue public-private partnerships as a third avenue.

The task before us now is to put political brinkmanship aside and find areas of compromise and common ground.

Obviously, when you put policies in that have demonstrable benefit to middle-class families, that is what reflects what you are trying to accomplish.

We have seen through experiments testing these policy theories and we saw in the 1990s that the tax policies that were put in place with the, you know, charges that it would destroy the economy had the opposite effect.

We need to reform our broken system to make it work, to end inversions, to end the push.

We want to work together on tax reform on the individual side, as well, to make it simpler.

It is wrong for countries to have a race to the bottom, with, you know, zero or close-to-zero tax rates to be a magnet for these kinds of activities.

I fundamentally agree with the point that we want the burden on small businesses to be easier and lower.

I think that it is a mistake to think that there is a simple solution.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, we have millions of people, almost 10 million people, who have health insurance coverage that they didn't have.

The task before us now is to put political brinksmanship aside and find areas of compromise and common ground...