Tim Geithner: “We have established by the Congress an independent Fed with a basic obligation to make sure we keep prices low and…”

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.

Again, our overall objective, and this has to be our shared objective, is to have the private markets, banks and investors, bear more of the risk in housing finance, not less of the risk.

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

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