Tim Geithner: “The reforms we proposed... would give us a much stronger set of tools for preventing these crises from happening.”

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…

The Obama Administration's determination to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is unwavering.

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.

The basic sense that you see across the country that the political institutions in this country are not up to the challenges we face, unable to act, unable to solve problems, is absolutely weighing on confidence.