Valerie Jarrett Quotes

• As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compete, Try

• I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Quality

• People are struggling. They’re trying to make ends meet, and they’re looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don’t feel that that’s been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There’s no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Trying

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in America

  Tags in Tenacity

• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone’s child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Course

• I just worry a lot. I’m a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don’t want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It’s a lot to ask of people, and it’s a lot to see your friends go through. It’s hard not to get emotional.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worry

• I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that’s what the American people expect and deserve – not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don’t spend time trying to figure out what’s in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Work

  Tags in President

• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Growth

• There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams – this is what makes our country so special.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, American

• We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forums, President

• The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who’ve tried to get healthcare reform passed.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Healthcare

• The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Administration

• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Health

• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irreversible, Catastrophe, Storms, Coastline

• Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sidelines, Obama, Combat, Clear, Climate, Change

• President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Diversity, Celebrate

• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worker, Recovery, Create

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Campaign, Proponent, Option

• No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forced, Option

Valerie Jarrett (31)

Birth:	14th November, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Valerie Bowman Jarrett is a Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration. She is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior to that she served as a co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

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