Jacob J. Lew: “The task before us now is to put political brinksmanship aside and find areas of compromise and common ground...”

I have been trying to deal with it as a crisis that we need to deal with on a bipartisan basis.

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.

I don't think Social Security and Medicare should be cut, you know, to take away from people what they need and what they have been promised.

I do not think that there is anything more important that we could have done to deal with poverty in this country.