Tim Geithner: “You have a financial system that is more stable. Credit is more available. People can borrow at much lower cost.”

The things that are burdening the economy, making growth weaker are things that only Congress can solve.

It's very important to future economic growth. There is no alternative to doing that.

This is not beyond our capacity, as a country, to solve.

if Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.