Tim Geithner: “We have to act. We cannot talk about it. I agree with that.”

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

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.

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…