It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.
This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.
As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
Blame is for God and small children.
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.
I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.
I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.
The Tea Party claims to want small government.
I eat and breathe small government and freedom.
If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.
I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.
I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.
I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.
