Tim Geithner: “While we see some initial signs of economic improvement and the financial system is beginning to heal, our country faces…”

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

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

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

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.