Tim Geithner: “Well, I think what the American people should be worried about is that we have unsustainable deficits, and we need to…”

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

If those were embraced by the Congress tomorrow, there would be substantially more confidence around the world in the capacity of this political system in Washington.

I definitely believe that Dodd-Frank has put us in a much stronger position than we were before the crisis.