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

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.

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.

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

I did a rendition of Billie Jean which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

No man is above the law.