Latest Valerie Jarrett Quotes from Interviews

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• The world it changing very quickly and we can't wait another 50 years!

  Valerie Jarrett

  Waiting, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Men, Thinking, Volunteer

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Thinking, Workplace

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I think, traditionally, when the federal government has gathered statistics, it's been done in silos, so every agency really focuses on the statistics that are important to agency.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Thinking, Important, Done

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Men, Parent, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• From day one, President Obama has made improving the quality of life for woman a top priority. It's why he created the White House Council on Women and Girls that I'm so proud to chair. Our directive was to look across the board at all of the federal agencies and determine what we could do to improve the quality of life for women and girls.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Girl, House, Priorities

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Pursuit Of Happiness, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.pbs.org

• For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Daughter, Morning, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Change is never fast enough to satisfy us. I still hear too many stories of women who go back to work too soon, but I do believe that we have been able to change the paradigm in attitudes towards family leave in that it's no longer a nice thing to do for women, it's a must do for competitiveness, and that's a big change over the last seven years. Changing it into an economic issue is a big sea change in the last seven years.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Attitude, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.glamour.com

• American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

  Valerie Jarrett

  People, Analysis, Care

  "Major Garrett Questions Presidential Adviser Valerie Jarrett". Interview with Major Garrett, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

• What we need to do together is to put in place the kind of - foster the kind of environment where businesses of all sizes - small, medium or large - want to invest, want to do the innovative things that our businesses here in America are known for doing, want to grow our economy and want to create the kind of jobs that will bring - reduce that unemployment rate.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, America, Together

  "Major Garrett Questions Presidential Adviser Valerie Jarrett". Interview with Major Garrett, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

• I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.