Tim Geithner: “clarity about strategy, matched by resources in authority, is central to confidence.”

We're going to establish a level playing field across banks and nonbanks so that the business can't just shift to where there's no regulation.

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 does not act on these tax provisions or on the investments and infrastructure things, then what happens to the American economy? What happens is that every American who has a job will see their taxes go up by $1,000 on average…

the only way to restore fiscal responsibility and still preserve the commitments we need to make to our retirees and national security, is by a modest increase in the effective tax rate for the Americans who are in the best position to…