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.

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

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

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.