I can't TELL you how MANY TIMES I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still THINK they should be ABLE to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.

The whole STUDENT loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to PAY their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer SUPPORT for public COLLEGES and universities.

Microfinance does not require previous experience or LOANS to the same EXTENT as a small-business loan, so it's easier for WOMEN to enter the micro sector.

A Fed LOAN to Lehman BROTHERS WOULD not have prevented a BANKRUPTCY.

I THINK SAM Smith's DAD got a huge loan or something to help his CAREER. Those things can help artists get attention, but I guess my song 'Say You Won't Let GO' proved it's about the song.

Newcastle was tough - the manager who'd SIGNED me, Bobby Robson, GOT sacked THREE games into the SEASON, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on LOAN again, to Aston Villa.

If your appraisal comes back too LOW - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and SOLD to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That MEANS you MAY have to pay a much higher rate.

Getting a tax refund is NICE, but having more money year-round is BETTER. If you GET a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not SOMETHING they, or any bank, would ever give you. INSTEAD, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.

I was obsessed with GEORGE Orwell for years. I remember going to the TOWN LIBRARY and having to put in interlibrary LOAN requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

The way the credit CARDS were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be ABLE to make it so that you COULD GET a LOAN that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the IMPROV and the Comedy Store, making 20 BUCKS a night. I learned how to be a STARVING comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate WELL on loan.

The 2009 STIMULUS LAW got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to REDUCE and eliminate fees and raise loan GUARANTEES to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the OPPORTUNITY to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

We were able in the Recovery Act to GET a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 PERCENT. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that MUCH risk.

When you go out on loan it's not the glitz and GLAMOUR, there's nowhere near the AMOUNT of money there is at the top level. PEOPLE's livelihoods are on the LINE, mortgages and families. You are making decisions which can affect people.