Tim Geithner: “Without that action, we would be sitting here today with a dramatically worse crisis.”

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.

I believe, as does the President, that there is no plausible way for us to address the many economic challenges facing the country, including our unsustainable fiscal deficits, without asking those most fortunate few to pay a modestly…

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.

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