Tim Geithner: “A global crisis which requires a global response.”

this ushers in a new era of openness and transparency for tax information between the United States and Panama.

The basic sense that you see across the country that the political institutions in this country are not up to the challenges we face, unable to act, unable to solve problems, is absolutely weighing on confidence.

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.

We can't keep putting it off indefinitely.