Tim Geithner: “The biggest long-term fiscal problem we have as a country is the rate of growth in health-care costs.”

If those were embraced by the Congress tomorrow, there would be substantially more confidence around the world in the capacity of this political system in Washington.

Executive compensation played a material role in causing the financial crisis because it encouraged excessive risk taking.

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.

If Congress were to choose to try to defer everything... that would be very damaging to the interests of the country.