32 Quotes by Jack Lew

In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Congress should get the job done.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.