Tim Geithner: “President Obama and his administration are working to meet these challenges by getting Americans back to work and…”

If Congress were to legislate constraints on itself that was consistent with that deficit reduction path, that would be enormously helpful to sustaining the confidence in the United States and around the world that we are going to go back…

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.

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.

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.