Tim Geithner: “We've seen some encouraging signs. The pace of deterioration has started to slow. Some improvement, but it took a long…”

If the U.S. Government were at this time... to significantly reduce the assistance it provides students going to college, that would be a bad thing for the country.

I definitely believe that Dodd-Frank has put us in a much stronger position than we were before the crisis.

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.

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.