Tim Geithner: “The things that are burdening the economy, making growth weaker are things that only Congress can solve.”

You cannot effectively oversee a financial system without much better information than we had access to before the crisis.

One of the most important things the Congress did is to say, 'We're going to establish a level playing field across banks and nonbanks.'

It's critically important. I'll give you an example of how to--if the Congress extends those tax cuts that go to 2 percent of the most fortunate Americans in the country, we have to go borrow $1 trillion over 10 years.

The TARP bank investments have already produced a profit for the taxpayer of over $19.5 billion.