41 Quotes by Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

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.

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.