Tim Geithner: “executive compensation played a material role in causing the financial crisis because it encouraged excessive risk…”

This is not beyond our capacity, as a country, to solve.

I think it's inevitable that the Congress and the administration come together and reform, comprehensively, the U.S. tax code.

Those--the cuts are designed to starve those agencies of the ability--deny them the ability to enforce a set of basic, sensible protections for consumers and investors.

It would be better for the country for Congress to provide some certainty about how we are going to address these long-term fiscal problems.