Tim Geithner: “We will not be effective unless we earn more confidence with you and your colleagues and with the American people that…”

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

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…

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

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.