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

This is not beyond our capacity, as a country, to solve.

People don't like to pay taxes. But they are more likely to pay taxes if you can make them more confident that they are not going to be wasted by their government.

It's not a partisan issue. It's traditionally had a lot of bipartisan support.

Those--the cuts are designed to starve those agencies of the ability--deny them the ability to enforce a set of basic, sensible protections for consumers and investors.