Tim Geithner: “Our plan, as you know, is designed to create a housing finance system in which the Government's role is limited to…”

the only way to restore fiscal responsibility and still preserve the commitments we need to make to our retirees and national security, is by a modest increase in the effective tax rate for the Americans who are in the best position to…

If you call into question the willingness of the Government of the United States to meet its obligations, you will shake the basic foundations of the entire global financial system.

It's critically important. I'll give you an example of how to--if the Congress extends those tax cuts that go to 2 percent of the most fortunate Americans in the country, we have to go borrow $1 trillion over 10 years.

I think you see reflected there, like you see reflected across the country, a deep sense of concern about the fact that we have 9 million Americans out of work.