Jacob J. Lew: “We need to take a long view, and it doesn't mean we put off until tomorrow beginning to take action.”

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.

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

The decision has never been made by the only people who can make the decision--that is the President of the United States on the advice of the Treasury Secretary--what to do.