Jacob J. Lew: “Well, for me, it comes down to two things: promoting American trade and restoring American leadership.”

The American people deserve to have an IRS with the resources so that, when you pick up the phone and call the IRS, there is a person at the other end to answer it.

So the only pathway to a stable future for Puerto Rico has to involve them restructuring their debt.

I have always thought that the sooner we could have a bipartisan conversation on dealing with Social Security, the better.

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.