Tim Geithner: “the biggest threat to long-term solvency of Medicare and Medicaid is a health-care system that has enormous hidden…”

You cannot govern a country if you commit never to raise taxes on anybody, because things change, wars happen, crises happen.

We can't keep putting it off indefinitely.

The world still views the United States and the American political system as up to the challenge of delivering reforms that make our economy stronger and our fiscal position more sustainable.

We're going to establish a level playing field across banks and nonbanks so that the business can't just shift to where there's no regulation.