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

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.

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.

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging - it definitely wasn't the fake love.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Choose your props wisely.

I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going on in theirs. I study 'em. I watch 'em every day.

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.