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We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.