Tim Geithner: “President Obama is committed to moving quickly to reform our entire system of financial regulation so that we never…”

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.

The only way to restore fiscal responsibility and still preserve the commitments we need to make to our retirees and national security, is by a modest increase in the effective tax rate for the Americans who are in the best position to…

Absolutely. Yes, again, we see there's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2 percent of the wealthiest Americans.

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