Customer Quotes by Timothy Geithner

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

— Timothy Geithner

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

— Timothy Geithner

If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a…

— Timothy Geithner

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

— Timothy Geithner

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose…

— Timothy Geithner

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether…

— Timothy Geithner

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we…

— Timothy Geithner

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and…

— Timothy Geithner

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out…

— Timothy Geithner

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite…

— Timothy Geithner

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as…

— Timothy Geithner

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the…

— Timothy Geithner

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a…

— Timothy Geithner

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

— Timothy Geithner

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change…

— Timothy Geithner