Jacob J. Lew

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

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

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

I totally agree with you on the importance of the EITC as a bridge to work.

The need to rebuild our infrastructure is irrefutable, and that is why this budget tackles our infrastructure challenges...

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

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.

The strategies I have described are part of the President's plan to help improve the lives of millions of hard-working Americans...

the basic reason that we support Trade Promotion Authority and good treaties is because we think it grows the U.S. economy and it grows the middle class jobs in this country.

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

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.

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.