President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

Your goal and destination also fill your life with meaning and make it significant

Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.