Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

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

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.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family...

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

Love has no place for idealization.