Tim Geithner: “This is not beyond our capacity, as a country, to solve.”

People don't like to pay taxes. But they are more likely to pay taxes if you can make them more confident that they are not going to be wasted by their government.

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

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.

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.