Tim Geithner: “this ushers in a new era of openness and transparency for tax information between the United States and Panama.”

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.

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.

You cannot effectively oversee a financial system without much better information than we had access to before the crisis.

When Timothy Geithner says today that he's willing to go over the cliff, he's saying it because, yes, it's posturing. But he's also saying it because he means it.