Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie June Jarrettis an American government official who is currently 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-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 November 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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I am an Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith. I am also an American Citizen and I seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself.
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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.
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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
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Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
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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.
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.
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FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.
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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.
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Put yourself in the path of lightning,