Tim Geithner: “I worry very much that there are not enough resources in this package to deal with the housing crisis.”

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

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.

I believe, as does the President, that there is no plausible way for us to address the many economic challenges facing the country, including our unsustainable fiscal deficits, without asking those most fortunate few to pay a modestly…

I do not believe there is a credible argument to make that uncertainty about our fiscal deficits or uncertainty about the design of regulation in Washington today is having a material adverse effect on the American economy today.