Tim Geithner: “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.

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 the U.S. Government were at this time... to significantly reduce the assistance it provides students going to college, that would be a bad thing for the country.

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