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…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— 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…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— 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,…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— Timothy Geithner

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

— 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…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— Timothy Geithner

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

— Timothy Geithner

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

— 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…

— Timothy Geithner

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the…

— Timothy Geithner

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of…

— Timothy Geithner

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household…

— Timothy Geithner

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

— Timothy Geithner

“[Hyperinflation is] not going to happen in this country, will never happen... [The Fed putting so much money into the system is]…

— Timothy Geithner

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain…

— Timothy Geithner

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary.…

— Timothy Geithner

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— Timothy Geithner