Tim Geithner: “The TARP bank investments have already produced a profit for the taxpayer of over $19.5 billion.”

I think it's inevitable that the Congress and the administration come together and reform, comprehensively, the U.S. tax code.

Those--the cuts are designed to starve those agencies of the ability--deny them the ability to enforce a set of basic, sensible protections for consumers and investors.

executive compensation played a material role in causing the financial crisis because it encouraged excessive risk taking.

Again, our overall objective, and this has to be our shared objective, is to have the private markets, banks and investors, bear more of the risk in housing finance, not less of the risk.