Tim Geithner: “There is a lot of confidence in the political will of this country to get ahead of this problem.”

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.

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

I do not believe there is a credible argument to make that uncertainty about our fiscal deficits or uncertainty about the design of regulation in Washington today is having a material adverse effect on the American economy today.

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