Tim Geithner: “We are not going to be raising taxes on the American economy until we get through this recession.”

Executive compensation played a material role in causing the financial crisis because it encouraged excessive risk taking.

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…

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