Jacob J. Lew: “We pushed back very hard, and we are making progress.”

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

You find cases of tax avoidance, and we know when you find cases of tax avoidance, voluntary compliance goes up.

If we do not have the resources to hire the enforcement officers that we need, the tax gap will only grow.

I don't think defaulting on payments to veterans is any better than defaulting on payments to foreign bond holders.