Jacob J. Lew: “The need to rebuild our infrastructure is irrefutable, and that is why this budget tackles our infrastructure…”

We can't just cut the things that we need to grow in order to reduce the deficit more in the short run.

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

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

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