Timothy Geithner

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

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 to that market.

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

It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.