Tim Geithner: “the Budget Committee deals in hallucinations, and the Appropriations Committee deals in facts.”

It's very important to future economic growth. There is no alternative to doing that.

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.

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

People don't like to pay taxes. But they are more likely to pay taxes if you can make them more confident that they are not going to be wasted by their government.