Tim Geithner: “Why should somebody running a private equity firm or a hedge fund face lower taxes on income than a teacher and…”

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

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

When Timothy Geithner says today that he's willing to go over the cliff, he's saying it because, yes, it's posturing. But he's also saying it because he means it.

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.