Tim Geithner: “We are not going to do new things, new, expensive things, long-term commitments, without paying for them.”

If Congress were to legislate constraints on itself that was consistent with that deficit reduction path, that would be enormously helpful to sustaining the confidence in the United States and around the world that we are going to go back…

We can't keep putting it off indefinitely.

If the U.S. Government were at this time... to significantly reduce the assistance it provides students going to college, that would be a bad thing for the country.

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