Jacob J. Lew: “Our view is that this economy would benefit from more certainty and less brinkmanship.”

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

If you have a house on a block with blighted housing on it, if you do not remove the blighted housing, your chances of staying above water are really tough.

The immediate need is for Congress to pass legislation that will permit them to restructure their debt.

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